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Celebrant

One who performs a public religious rite; -- applied particularly to an officiating priest in the Roman Catholic Church, as distinguished from his assistants.

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Actor 76% connected

One who acts, or takes part in any affair; a doer.

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Doer 76% connected

One who does; one performs or executes; one who is wont and ready to act; an actor; an agent.

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Priest 76% connected

A presbyter elder; a minister

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Worker 76% connected

One who, or that which, works; a laborer; a performer; as, a worker in brass.

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Merrymaker 76% connected

One who makes merriment or indulges in conviviality; a jovial comrade.

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Reveler 76% connected

One who revels.

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Celebrate 74% connected

To extol or honor in a solemn manner; as, to celebrate the name of the Most High.

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Celebrate 74% connected

To extol or honor in a solemn manner; as, to celebrate the name of the Most High.

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Observe 74% connected

To take notice of by appropriate conduct; to conform one's action or practice to; to keep; to heed; to obey; to comply with; as, to observe rules or…

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Observe 74% connected

To take notice of by appropriate conduct; to conform one's action or practice to; to keep; to heed; to obey; to comply with; as, to observe rules or…

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Celebrator 92% connected

One who celebrates; a praiser.

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Acolyte noun · 78% connection

someone who assists a priest or minister in a liturgical service; a cleric ordained in the highest of the minor orders in the Roman Ca…

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Alb noun · 78% connection

A vestment of white linen, reaching to the feet, an enveloping the person; -- in the Roman Catholic church, worn by those in holy orde…

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Armenian noun · 78% connection

An adherent of the Armenian Church, an organization similar in some doctrines and practices to the Greek Church, in others to the Roma…

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Bibliolatry noun · 78% connection

Book worship, esp. of the Bible; -- applied by Roman Catholic divines to the exaltation of the authority of the Bible over that of the…

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Breviary noun · 78% connection

A book containing the daily public or canonical prayers of the Roman Catholic or of the Greek Church for the seven canonical hours, na…

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Catholic noun · 78% connection

An adherent of the Roman Catholic church; a Roman Catholic.

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Catholicize v. t. & i. · 78% connection

To make or to become catholic or Roman Catholic.

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Chasuble noun · 78% connection

The outer vestment worn by the priest in saying Mass, consisting, in the Roman Catholic Church, of a broad, flat, back piece, and a na…

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Church noun · 78% connection

A body of Christian believers, holding the same creed, observing the same rites, and acknowledging the same ecclesiastical authority;…

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Confessional noun · 78% connection

The recess, seat, or inclosed place, where a priest sits to hear confessions; often a small structure furnished with a seat for the pr…

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Confirmation noun · 78% connection

A rite supplemental to baptism, by which a person is admitted, through the laying on of the hands of a bishop, to the full privileges…

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Congregation noun · 78% connection

A body of cardinals or other ecclesiastics to whom as intrusted some department of the church business; as, the Congregation of the Pr…

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Doorkeeper noun · 78% connection

the lowest of the minor Holy Orders in the unreformed Western Church but now suppressed by the Roman Catholic Church

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Eminence noun · 78% connection

A title of honor, especially applied to a cardinal in the Roman Catholic Church.

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Exorcist noun · 78% connection

one of the minor orders in the unreformed Western Church but now suppressed in the Roman Catholic Church

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Gallicanism noun · 78% connection

The principles, tendencies, or action of those, within the Roman Catholic Church in France, who (esp. in 1682) sought to restrict the…

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Kirk noun · 78% connection

A church or the church, in the various senses of the word; esp., the Church of Scotland as distinguished from other reformed churches,…

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Labadist noun · 78% connection

A follower of Jean de Labadie, a religious teacher of the 17th century, who left the Roman Catholic Church and taught a kind of mystic…

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