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acolytate

acolytate noun: the minor order of acolytes.

Noun

acolytate (plural acolytates)

  1. The minor order of acolytes.
    • Secondly, only men are eligible to be "installed" or "instituted" in the lay ministries of lector and acolyte (c.230 §1). These two ministries used to be among the “minor orders,” but Pope Paul VI suppressed the minor orders and established the lectorate and acolytate as lay ministries in 1972...2016, Marie Failinger, Feminism, Law, and Religion, page 352

Forms of acolytate

pluralacolytates

Origin of acolytate

From acolyte + -ate.

Questions about acolytate

What does acolytate mean?
Acolytate means the minor order of acolytes.
What part of speech is acolytate?
Acolytate is a noun.
What is the plural of acolytate?
The plural of acolytate is acolytates.

Words near acolytate in the dictionary

  1. acoltremon
  2. acoluthic
  3. acolutholect
  4. acolutholects
  5. acolyctine
  6. acolytate
  7. acolytates
  8. acolyte
  9. acolytes
  10. acolyteship
  11. acolyth

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