Sacristan

Noun

 * 1) The person who maintains the sacristy and the sacred objects it contains.
 * 2) *1793, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Christabel
 * And hence the custom and law began
 * That still at dawn the sacristan,
 * Who duly pulls the heavy bell,
 * Five and forty beads must tell
 * Between each stroke

Thesaurus
Bible clerk, Bible reader, acolyte, almoner, anagnost, beadle, bedral, capitular, capitulary, choir chaplain, churchwarden, clerk, deacon, deaconess, elder, elderman, lay elder, lay reader, lector, lecturer, parish clerk, precentor, reader, ruling elder, sacrist, sexton, shames, sidesman, succentor, suisse, teaching elder, thurifer, verger, vergeress

Translations

 * French: ,
 * German:, Küsterin


 * Hungarian:

Related terms

 * sacrist
 * sacristry
 * sacristy

Anagrams

 * arcanists