Definitions
an officer of the church who is in charge of sacred objects
Word origin
From Old French segrestien, from Medieval Latin sacristanus, based on Latin sacer (“sacred”). Doublet of sacristan.
Used in a sentence
“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”
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Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Church caretaker”6 letters
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