sacristn.
/ˈseɪkrɪst/, /ˈsakrɪst/, U.S. /ˈseɪkrəst/, /ˈsækrəst/ 1. An official charged with the custody of the sacred vessels, relics, vestments, etc., of a religious house or a church.In English cathedrals the ‘sacrist’ (sometimes called ‘sacristan’) is always in orders, often a minor canon.
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1587 A. Fleming et al. Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) III. 1241/2 Frier Combe, a sacrist of that house of Westminster.
1635 E. Pagitt Christianographie (1636) iii. 103 Two Sacrists, carrying two silver Lanthorns.
1661 T. Blount Glossographia (ed. 2) Sacrist or Sacristan, a Sexten or Vestry-keeper in a Church, or Religious house.
1665 S. Bing in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eng. Hist. (1827) 2nd Ser. IV. 23 It is said the Sacrist [of St. Paul's] is out of town, -and there will be no Communion as customarily.
1726 J. Ayliffe Parergon Juris Canonici Anglicani 216 A Sacrist or Treasurer which are not Dignitaries in the Church of Common Right, but only by Custom.
1883 Daily News 19 Sept. 1/1 [Died.] Mr. W. Sanders, for many years Sacrist and Librarian of Westminster Abbey.
2. An officer in the University of Aberdeen (formerly King's and Marischal Colleges); (originally) a cleric whose responsibilities included the furnishings of the church, later a senior janitor or head porter with some ceremonial duties.
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1638 King's Coll. (Aberdeen) Minutes 27 Dec. In the visitatioun of the Kinges Colledge of the Universitie of Aberdeine..convenit..Mr. Alexander Ross doctor of divinitie, principall of the said Colledge,..Mr. Gilbert Ross, cantor, and Patrick Innes, sacrist.
1732 in A. M. Munro Rec. Old Aberdeen (1899) I. 256 Robert Gordon, Saccarist in the King's College.
1825 Aberdeen Censor Dec. 210 Enrolled as a student in divinity, by paying six shillings to the sacrist of Marischall College and a moiety to the library.
1865 G. MacDonald Alec Forbes II. ii. 8 A long broom which the sacrist had been using to clear foot-paths.
1902 Minutes Aberdeen Univ. Court V. 250 The Joint Committee were of the opinion that appropriate costumes, including robes and hats, for the two sacrists, could be procured for £15.
1965 Aberdeen Univ. Rev. Autumn 70 No ceremony is complete without the presence of the sacrist (or sacrists) robed in purple, with a tricorne hat trimmed with gold upon his head, and bearing his silver, bell-headed, mace.
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