And hence the custom and law began That still at dawn the sacristan, Who duly pulls the heavy bell, Five and forty beads must tell Between each stroke
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Sacristan
//ˈsækɹɪstən//
Synonyms for "sacristan" (37 found)
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Related words (18)
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4 entriesTranslations
34 translations across 21 languages.
Armenian
1 entries- լուսարար noun (person who maintains the sacristy)
Catalan
1 entries- sagristà noun (person who maintains the sacristy)
Cebuano
1 entries- sakristan noun (person who maintains the sacristy)
Dutch
2 entries- koster noun (person who maintains the sacristy)
- sacrista noun (person who maintains the sacristy)
Finnish
1 entries- suntio noun (person who maintains the sacristy)
French
2 entries- sacristain noun (person who maintains the sacristy)
- sacristaine noun (person who maintains the sacristy)
German
3 entries- Küster noun (person who maintains the sacristy)
- Küsterin noun (person who maintains the sacristy)
- Mesner noun (person who maintains the sacristy)
Greek
2 entries- σκευοφύλακας noun (person who maintains the sacristy)
- σκευοφύλαξ noun (person who maintains the sacristy)
Hungarian
1 entries- sekrestyés noun (person who maintains the sacristy)
Indonesian
2 entries- koster noun (person who maintains the sacristy)
- sakristan noun (person who maintains the sacristy)
Irish
1 entries- sacraisteoir noun (person who maintains the sacristy)
Italian
2 entries- sacrestano noun (person who maintains the sacristy)
- sagrestano noun (person who maintains the sacristy)
Ladin
1 entries- mëune noun (person who maintains the sacristy)
Latin
3 entries- aedituus noun (person who maintains the sacristy)
- sacrarius noun (person who maintains the sacristy)
- sēcrētārius noun (person who maintains the sacristy)
Lithuanian
1 entries- zakristijõnas noun (person who maintains the sacristy)
Malayalam
1 entries- കപ്യാർ noun (person who maintains the sacristy)
Polish
4 entries- kościelna noun (person who maintains the sacristy)
- kościelny noun (person who maintains the sacristy)
- zakrystian noun (person who maintains the sacristy)
- zakrystianka noun (person who maintains the sacristy)
Romanian
1 entries- sacristan noun (person who maintains the sacristy)
Russian
2 entries- понома́рь noun (person who maintains the sacristy)
- ри́зничий noun (person who maintains the sacristy)
Spanish
1 entries- sacristán noun (person who maintains the sacristy)
Tagalog
1 entries- sakristan noun (person who maintains the sacristy)
Sample sentences
3 total sentences available.
[…] every evening as the temple was closed for the night the sacristan paused: "Pindar to supper with the god!" he cried.
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The church was looked after by an old sacristan who lived in a cottage on the shore of the lake.
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