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Definition of Acolytes
1. acolyte [n] - See also: acolyte
Lexicographical Neighbors of Acolytes
Literary usage of Acolytes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1908)
"The minor functions are performed by acolytes, usually laymen and boys. A priest
is not allowed to celebrate even a low mass without at least one person to ..."
2. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1910)
"When in 251 Pope Cornelius, in a letter to Fabius of Antioch, mentions among the
Roman clergy forty-two acolytes, placing them after the ..."
3. Ancient Christianity Exemplified in the Private, Domestic, Social, and Civil by Lyman Coleman (1853)
"The acolytes, as their name implies, were the immediate attendants and followers
of the bishop, especially in public processions and on festive occasions, ..."
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