| 单词 | vestry-keeper |
| 释义 | > as lemmasvestry-keeper C1. In sense 1, as vestry door, vestry fire, vestry-keeper, vestry window, etc. ΘΚΠ society > faith > church government > laity > lay functionaries > vestryman > [noun] vestry-keeper1477 vestryman1614 1477–9 in H. Littlehales Medieval Rec. London City Church (1905) 81 A key to the vestry dore beneth. 1510 in R. Willis & J. W. Clark Archit. Hist. Univ. Cambr. (1886) II. 200 The largienge of the vestrie dore. 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Sacristain, a Sexton, or Vestrie-keeper, in a Church. 1670 G. Havers tr. G. Leti Il Cardinalismo di Santa Chiesa i. iii. 75 They are oblig'd..to give to the Popes Vestry-keeper..five and twenty Ducats. 1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Vestry-Keeper, a Sexton, whose Business is to look after the Vestry. 1772 J. Gough tr. J. M. B. de la M. Guyon Life Lady Guion II. ii. v. 5 I had taken the office of Sacristan (or Vestry Nun) and the care of waking the Sisters at the hour they were to rise. 1843 C. Dickens Martin Chuzzlewit (1844) xxxi. 373 I have left the vestry-window unfastened. 1856 C. Dickens Little Dorrit (1857) i. xiv. 128 Having stirred the Vestry fire, he looked round the shelves of registers. < as lemmas |
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