sacrist

English

Etymology

From Late Latin sacrista.

Noun

sacrist (plural sacrists)

  2. 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'.
  4. A person retained in a cathedral to copy out music for the choir and take care of the books.

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