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sacrists

sacrists is the plural of sacrist.

Meaning of sacrist

Noun

sacrist (plural sacrists)

  1. A sacristan.
    • At some unknown point during the twelfth century the problem of waking up at night at the right time to ring the bell was solved, because, in a new version of the Rule for Cistercian monks, it says that the sacrist 'roused by the sound of the clock shall ring the church bell'.1978, James Burke, Connections, Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, pages 128-129
  2. A person retained in a cathedral to copy out music for the choir and take care of the books.

Questions about sacrists

What is sacrists the plural of?
Sacrists is the plural of sacrist.

Words near sacrists in the dictionary

  1. sacristanry
  2. sacristans
  3. sacristies
  4. sacristries
  5. sacristry
  6. sacrists
  7. sacristy
  8. sacro-
  9. sacroanterior
  10. sacrocaudal
  11. sacrocaudals

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