資料來源 : pyDict
侍僧,助手
資料來源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Acolyte \Ac`o*lyte\, n. [LL. acolythus, acoluthus, Gr. ?
following, attending: cf. F. acolyte.]
1. (Eccl.) One who has received the highest of the four minor
orders in the Catholic church, being ordained to carry the
wine and water and the lights at the Mass.
2. One who attends; an assistant. ``With such chiefs, and
with James and John as acolytes.'' --Motley.
資料來源 : WordNet®
acolyte
n : someone who assists a priest or minister in a liturgical
service; a cleric ordained in the highest of the minor
orders in the Roman Catholic Church but not in the
Anglican Church or the Eastern Orthodox Churches