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sacristan

/sak-ri-stuhn/US // ˈsæk rɪ stən //UK // (ˈsækrɪstən) //

神父,神甫,圣职者,圣职人员

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : Also called sac·rist [sak-rist, sey-krist]. /ˈsæk rɪst, ˈseɪ krɪst/. an official in charge of the sacred vessels, vestments, etc., of a church or a religious house.
    • : a sexton.

Examples

  • But I am too young and being lame would prevent my getting on to the step-ladders, as a Sacristan must.

  • Perhaps there is some one you would prefer to have me call, before the Sister Sacristan comes to fetch you?

  • And now—just for a moment lest the Sister Sacristan come back—I will take you out of the closet.

  • The Angelus had sounded, and the Sacristan wished to close the church.

  • The professor of pathology came along, a man who had more the look of a sacristan than of a physician.