votaristn.

1609 T. Morton Catholike Appeale iii. x. 388 The grand patrons and patterns of Romish votarists.

1656 S. Holland Don Zara ii. i. 61 I believe the Lady whom you are so vext at, is of too noble and generous a temper to welcom her Votarist with an affront.

1782 R. Cumberland Anecd. Painters Spain I. 60 In the fore ground of the groupe of Bachanals there is a young female votarist asleep.

1869 R. Browning Ring & Bk. III. vii. 73 So kneels a votarist, Weeds some poor waste traditionary plot Where shrine once was.

2004 Sydney Morning Herald (Nexis) 5 June (Spectrum section) 10 Mills stalks the scenes of Mansfield's vagabond life with a votarist's solemnity, and jots his intimate thoughts.

1611 J. Speed Hist. Great Brit. vii. xxxvii. 360/1 He then..in sacrilegious manner brake the hests of holy Church, in deflowring and taking a Votarist to wife.

1782 E. Carter Let. 18 Oct. in Series of Lett. E. Carter & C. Talbot (1808) II. 408 One of the nuns was kneeling very near the grate... If one of our fine drest ladies had been placed near this charming votarist [etc.].

1813 P. B. Shelley Queen Mab Notes 147 Such a vow, in both cases, excludes us from all enquiry. The language of the votarist is this.

1904 Jrnl. Presbyterian Hist. Soc. 2 214 But the votarist did not forget her obligation after she was landed in Philadelphia and the effects of the consternation had passed away.

1950 Heights (Boston College, Mass.) 3 Feb. 2/3 Each votarist advanced, recited the solemn vow, and placed a written profession of the vow in the hand of the celebrant holding the sacred host.

1806 H. Siddons Maid, Wife, & Widow II. 187 He is but a lukewarm votarist in the cause of truth and virtue, if he is to be thus ridiculed out of his integrity.

1831 W. Godwin Thoughts Man 202 There is still further advantage that belongs to the poet and the votarist of polite literature, which ought to be mentioned.

1996 Academe 82 22/2 The Egyptian language, Mdu Ntr, was not included as a classical language by the votarists of Greek and Latin in the 19th century.

2018 Northern Echo (Nexis) 14 Aug. I was overjoyed to watch the River Tees documentary that was filmed in 1962 on your website, thanks to a heads-up from my fellow real ale votarist, Mr Dickinson.