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Definition of sexton in English: sextonnoun ˈsɛkst(ə)nˈsɛkstən A person who looks after a church and churchyard, typically acting as bell-ringer and gravedigger. Example sentencesExamples - Joe Bleddon, the church sexton, pulled his kitchen door open and stepped outside to see what the weather was doing.
- Although many of Doyle's paintings depict the comical and amusing characters of his environment, it should be noted that Doyle was an intensely religious person who attended church regularly and served as the sexton of his church.
- The sexton had the task of digging the grave in the churchyard.
- A presentation was made to John Correll, Aghade, to honour the long service of the Correll Family as sextons of All Saints Church, Aghade.
- In short, what with undertakers, embalmers, joiners, sextons and your damned elegy hawkers, I got not one wink of sleep.
- After his enforced retirement from the army, Gillray's father became a sexton for the Moravians, a fundamentalist Christian sect of Bohemian origin.
- As Reverend Dimmesdale leaves his pulpit, the sexton meets him, holding out one of Dimmesdale's black gloves, which was found on the scaffold that morning.
- Whereas the sexton's son, Heidegger, had decided that the life of philosophy was incompatible with the dogmatic system of the Church, Stein was led by phenomenological study to God.
- Those were the days of six o'clock closing when the screech of the huge iron cemetery gates could be heard regularly at 6.15 p.m. as they were slammed shut by the sexton on his way home from the pub.
- The Scottish Tories have been very diligent sextons in the graveyard of their political hopes.
- Their family was a respected one, the most notable member being their maternal grandfather, Morten Klemetsen, who was a third generation teacher and served also as the sexton in the local church until 1905.
- There are also humble sextons like Heidegger's father; heroes come in all shapes and sizes.
- The city appointed a sexton to oversee burials and set rates at six dollars for a coffin and hearse and four dollars to dig the grave.
- The silence was often broken by the sexton coming to check the heating, or just popping in for a gossip, always accompanied by Lassie - the result of a moment's acrobatic limbo-passion between a local sheepdog and a Jack Russell.
- Marriage, however, could be tough: a parson visiting Ellerburn encountered the clerk and the sexton watching a husband and wife fight.
- There, Algot, the hunchback sexton, tells Tomas before the service something that has been troubling him about the Gospels: Christ's physical agony could not have been as bad as his own.
- I had just begun to draw a whole line of monkeys sitting on another wall, when the church sexton rode up on a motorcycle and introduced himself.
- Godparents would bring gifts for the child, and, in the past, for the mother and the church sexton, who would ring the church bells to mark the occasion.
- Paul Revere tells Johnny to tell Robert Newman, the sexton at Christ's Church, to hang two lanterns.
- I went round to the vestry and was delighted to see the sexton.
Origin Middle English: from Anglo-Norman French segrestein, from medieval Latin sacristanus (see sacristan). Definition of sexton in US English: sextonnounˈsekstənˈsɛkstən A person who looks after a church and churchyard, sometimes acting as bell-ringer and formerly as a gravedigger. Example sentencesExamples - As Reverend Dimmesdale leaves his pulpit, the sexton meets him, holding out one of Dimmesdale's black gloves, which was found on the scaffold that morning.
- A presentation was made to John Correll, Aghade, to honour the long service of the Correll Family as sextons of All Saints Church, Aghade.
- There, Algot, the hunchback sexton, tells Tomas before the service something that has been troubling him about the Gospels: Christ's physical agony could not have been as bad as his own.
- Joe Bleddon, the church sexton, pulled his kitchen door open and stepped outside to see what the weather was doing.
- Paul Revere tells Johnny to tell Robert Newman, the sexton at Christ's Church, to hang two lanterns.
- Marriage, however, could be tough: a parson visiting Ellerburn encountered the clerk and the sexton watching a husband and wife fight.
- The city appointed a sexton to oversee burials and set rates at six dollars for a coffin and hearse and four dollars to dig the grave.
- Whereas the sexton's son, Heidegger, had decided that the life of philosophy was incompatible with the dogmatic system of the Church, Stein was led by phenomenological study to God.
- I went round to the vestry and was delighted to see the sexton.
- Godparents would bring gifts for the child, and, in the past, for the mother and the church sexton, who would ring the church bells to mark the occasion.
- Their family was a respected one, the most notable member being their maternal grandfather, Morten Klemetsen, who was a third generation teacher and served also as the sexton in the local church until 1905.
- In short, what with undertakers, embalmers, joiners, sextons and your damned elegy hawkers, I got not one wink of sleep.
- After his enforced retirement from the army, Gillray's father became a sexton for the Moravians, a fundamentalist Christian sect of Bohemian origin.
- The Scottish Tories have been very diligent sextons in the graveyard of their political hopes.
- Those were the days of six o'clock closing when the screech of the huge iron cemetery gates could be heard regularly at 6.15 p.m. as they were slammed shut by the sexton on his way home from the pub.
- There are also humble sextons like Heidegger's father; heroes come in all shapes and sizes.
- I had just begun to draw a whole line of monkeys sitting on another wall, when the church sexton rode up on a motorcycle and introduced himself.
- The silence was often broken by the sexton coming to check the heating, or just popping in for a gossip, always accompanied by Lassie - the result of a moment's acrobatic limbo-passion between a local sheepdog and a Jack Russell.
- Although many of Doyle's paintings depict the comical and amusing characters of his environment, it should be noted that Doyle was an intensely religious person who attended church regularly and served as the sexton of his church.
- The sexton had the task of digging the grave in the churchyard.
Origin Middle English: from Anglo-Norman French segrestein, from medieval Latin sacristanus (see sacristan). |