sexton

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A church official who looks after a church building and its graveyard and may act as a gravedigger and bell ringer.

   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.

2. 2
   noun

   an officer of the church who is in charge of sacred objects

3. 3
   noun

   A sexton beetle.

From Old French segrestien, from Medieval Latin sacristanus, based on Latin sacer (“sacred”). Doublet of sacristan.

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