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Definition of Officiants
1. officiant [n] - See also: officiant
Lexicographical Neighbors of Officiants
Literary usage of Officiants
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Contemporary Review (1866)
"Our traveller proceeds next to describe the service in the choir :— " Deux
officiants, revêtus des signes de leur dignité ..."
2. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1909)
"... for illumination leads to union; (c) unction as completing communion. The estate
of the officiants consists of three grades : (a) hierarch (ie, bishop), ..."
3. The Monthly Review by Ralph Griffiths (1796)
"... feats c were not originally made fur the officiants at the altar, but for the
convenience of others, who would frequently ..."
4. The Rites of the Twice-born by Sinclair Stevenson (1920)
"The officiants say that they do this to celebrate the removal of Krisna to a
shepherd's house after his birth. On the next day, the ninth of the dark half ..."
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