sacrist
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Late Latin sacrista.
Noun
[edit]sacrist (plural sacrists)
- A sacristan.
- 1978, James Burke, Connections, Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, pages 128-129:
- At some unknown point during the twelfth century the problem of waking up at night at the right time to ring the bell was solved, because, in a new version of the Rule for Cistercian monks, it says that the sacrist 'roused by the sound of the clock shall ring the church bell'.
- A person retained in a cathedral to copy out music for the choir and take care of the books.