acolyte
English Thesaurus
1. 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 (noun.person)
| hypernym | : | holy order, order, |
| definition | : | (usually plural) the status or rank or office of a Christian clergyman in an ecclesiastical hierarchy (noun.state) |
| hyponym | : | altar boy, |
| definition | : | a boy serving as an acolyte (noun.person) |
| hyponym | : | thurifer, |
| definition | : | an acolyte who carries a thurible (noun.person) |
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