单词 | acolyteship |
释义 | acolyteshipn. rare. The position or office of an acolyte (literal and figurative). ΘΚΠ society > faith > church government > member of the clergy > person in minor orders > acolyte > [noun] > office of acolyteship1570 1570 J. Foxe Actes & Monumentes (rev. ed.) I. 781/2 [Degrading] from Accoluteshyp [v.r. Acoluteship], by takyng from them the Cruet and Candelsticke. 1846 C. Maitland Church in Catacombs vi. 193 Before his execution he [sc. Huss] was degraded from all his orders in succession: priesthood, deaconship, subdeaconship, acolyteship, [etc.]. 1988 Washington Post (Nexis) 10 July w7 This guy spent his leisure time mastering his material with..countless hours of bulge-orbed acolyteship in front of MTV. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1570 |
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