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acolytates

acolytates is the plural of acolytate.

Meaning of acolytate

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

Questions about acolytates

What is acolytates the plural of?
Acolytates is the plural of acolytate.

Words near acolytates in the dictionary

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

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