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Anagnost

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Noun

1
Someone who reads aloud, especially who reads lessons, passages etc. during a church service. historical
"Coming to the landing, I saw two cataphracts, an anagnost reading prayers, Master Gurloes, and a young woman."
2
a cleric in the minor orders of the Eastern Orthodox Church who reads the lessons aloud in the liturgy (analogous to the lector in the Roman Catholic Church) wordnet

Etymology

From Latin anagnōstes (“slave trained to read aloud”), from Koine Greek ἀναγνώστης (anagnṓstēs, “reader, slave trained to read”), after Ancient Greek ἀναγιγνώσκειν (anagignṓskein, “to read”).

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