altarist

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English

Etymology

From altar +‎ -ist. Compare Latin altarista, French altariste.

Noun

altarist (plural altarists)

  1. (obsolete) A chaplain.
  2. (obsolete) The vicar of a church.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for altarist”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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