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ACOLYTE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Someone who assists a priest or minister in a liturgical service; a cleric ordained in the highest of the minor orders in the Roman Catholic Church but not in the Anglican Church or the Eastern Orthodox Churches
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("acolyte" is a kind of...):
clergyman; man of the cloth; reverend (a member of the clergy and a spiritual leader of the Christian Church)
Holy Order; Order ((usually plural) the status or rank or office of a Christian clergyman in an ecclesiastical hierarchy)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "acolyte"):
altar boy (a boy serving as an acolyte)
thurifer (an acolyte who carries a thurible)
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