sexton
noun/ˈsɛk.stən/
Etymology
From Old French segrestien, from Medieval Latin sacristanus, based on Latin sacer (“sacred”). Doublet of sacristan.
- derived from sacer
- derived from sacristanus
- derived from segrestien
Definitions
A church official who looks after a church building and its graveyard and may act as a…
A church official who looks after a church building and its graveyard and may act as a gravedigger and bell ringer.
- The whole village poured out to gaze on these Asiatic princes, for such the old sexton, who had in his youth been at Moscow and Constantinople, said they were.
- on that same night, Mr Haredale, having strongly bound his prisoner, with the assistance of the sexton, and forced him to mount his horse, conducted him to Chigwell
A sexton beetle.
A surname originating as an occupation.
The neighborhood
- neighborsacrament
- neighborsacredness
- neighborsacristanry
- neighborsacristry
- neighborsacristy
- neighborchurchwarden
Derived
Sexton, sextoncy, sextoness, sextonry, sextonship, Sleeping Sexton, undersexton
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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA