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Definition of Lectors
1. lector [n] - See also: lector
Lexicographical Neighbors of Lectors
Literary usage of Lectors
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"... 20 lectors, 4 cantors, and 7 doorkeepers. From these two examples we may infer
what the other smaller or larger churches must have required. ..."
2. The Grey Friars in Oxford: Part I: A History of the Convent, Part II by Andrew George Little (1892)
"Masters, lectors, and bachelors in Universities were to be provided with the
necessaries of life ... See dates of the Oxford lectors in ' MS. Canonic. Misc. ..."
3. The Ancient Church: Its History, Doctrine, Worship, and Constitution Traced by William Dool Killen (1859)
"In addition to the bishop, the presbyters, and the deacons, there were also, in
AD 251, in the Church of Rome lectors, sub-deacons, ..."
4. A History of the Christian Councils: From the Original Documents by Karl Joseph von Hefele, William Robinson Clark, Henry Nutcombe Oxenham, Edward Hayes Plumptre (1883)
"... of the lectors, ete., the meaning may be understood, with Christian Lupus, as
being that only their daughters must not be married to heretics or Jews or ..."
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