单词 | officiant |
释义 | officiantn. A person who officiates at a religious ceremony or conducts a religious service; an officiating priest or minister. ΘΚΠ society > faith > church government > member of the clergy > [noun] God's maneOE priestOE clerkc1050 secularc1290 vicary1303 minister1340 divinec1380 man of Godc1384 kirkmana1400 man of the churchc1400 cockc1405 Ecclesiastc1405 spiritual1441 ministrator1450 abbé1530 reverend1547 churchman1549 tippet-captain?1550 tippet knight1551 tippet man1551 public minister1564 reading minister1572 clergyman1577 clerk1577 padre1584 minstrel1586 spiritual1600 cleric1623 cassock1628 Levite1640 gownsman1641 teaching elder1642 ecclesiastic1651 religionist1651 crape1682 crape-gown-man1682 man in black1692 soul driver1699 secularist1716 autem jet1737 liturge1737 officiant1740 snub-devil1785 soul doctor1785 officiator1801 umfundisi1825 crape-man1826 clerical1837 God-man1842 Pfarrer1844 liturgist1848 white-choker1851 rook1859 shovel hat1859 sky pilot1865 ecclesiastical1883 joss-pidgin-man1886 josser1887 sin-shiftera1912 sin-buster1931 parch1944 society > faith > worship > observance, ritual > [noun] > person performing serverc1400 Ecclesiastc1405 ministrator1450 solemnizer1577 celebrant1624 exhibent1658 liturge1737 officiant1740 officiator1801 liturgist1848 1740 R. Challoner Garden of Soul 140 After this, is usually sung some Psalm or pious Metre, according to the order of Superiors, or Discretion of the Officiant, or Exigence of the Times. 1845 J. Lingard Hist. & Antiq. Anglo-Saxon Church (ed. 3) I. vii. 297 A prayer, pronounced by the bishop or officiant. 1881 A. M. Fairbairn Stud. Life Christ xvi. 286 The priests were essentially officiants. 1895 W. W. Hunter Old Missionary 136 The officiants at the mosque..lined the wayside and salaamed. 1909 J. H. Skrine Pastor Ovium 101 It was as family friend, not prospective officiant, that I had this confidence. 1960 A. Duggan Family Favourites ix. 190 The happy couple exchanged their vows before the chief priest of Cybele as officiant. 1991 S. Larsen & R. Larsen Fire in Mind ii. xx. 411 The ceremony..would be conducted by neither traditional Buddhist nor Shinto priests, but officiants more akin to shamans: the Yamabushi, the independent mountain-dwelling ascetics of Japan. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1740 |
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