Meaning of sacrist | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A sacristan.
2. A person retained in a cathedral to copy out music for the choir and take care of the books.

Examples

“At some unknown point⟳ during the twelfth century the problem of waking up at night at the right time to ring⟳ the bell was solved, because, in a new version of the Rule⟳ for Cistercian monks, it says that the sacrist 'roused by the sound⟳ of the clock shall ring⟳ the church bell'.”

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