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Sexton

Sexton (probably from sacristan), the keeper of things belonging to divine

Necrophorus and allied genera called also burying beetle carrion beetle sexton beetle

utensils or movables and of the church in general a sexton

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An under officer of a church whose business is to take care of the church building and the vessels vestments...

A female sexton a sextons wife

The office of a sexton

Sacristan, a sexton, anciently called sagerson or sagiston; the keeper of things belonging

to a church or religious house for maintenance of a sexton or sacristan.

of the Roman Church, and retained amongst the Protestants by sextons, parish clerks, and criers, Cumb. ap. Wharton Angl. Sacr., par.

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