acolyte
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n.
1. One who assists the celebrant in the performance of liturgical rites.
2. A devoted follower or attendant.
[Middle English acolit, from Old French, from Medieval Latin acolytus, from Greek akolouthos, attendant; see anacoluthon.]
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| Noun | 1. | acolyte – 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
altar boy – a boy serving as an acolyte
clergyman, man of the cloth, reverend – a member of the clergy and a spiritual leader of the Christian Church
thurifer – an acolyte who carries a thurible
Holy Order, Order – (usually plural) the status or rank or office of a Christian clergyman in an ecclesiastical hierarchy; “theologians still disagree over whether `bishop’ should or should not be a separate Order”
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