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Definition of Sacrists
1. sacrist [n] - See also: sacrist
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sacrists
Literary usage of Sacrists
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Marriage, Baptismal, and Burial Registers of the Collegiate Church Or by Joseph Lemuel Chester (1876)
"24 Mr. Perkinson, one of the sacrists :6 [Cloisters]. Feb. ... 6 John Parkin-ion
had a patent from the Dean and Chapter, as one of the sacrists, 18 Feb. ..."
2. Cathedralia: A Constitutional History of Cathedrals of the Western Church by Mackenzie Edward Charles Walcott (1865)
"There are now 8 bell-ringers, 8 sub-sacrists or under vergers, land and colliery
agents, a constable, gardener, and woodman, and a clerk of the works. ..."
3. East Anglian, Or, Notes and Queries on Subjects Connected with the Counties by Samuel Tymms, Charles Harold Evelyn White, Suffolk Institute of Archaeology (1886)
"Mr. Harrod, chancing to meet with certain charges in the sacrists' Rolls at
Norwich, " for letting a man down from the roof habited ;is au angel with a ..."
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