acolyte
a person who follows or helps another person
TRANSLATION
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Much of the worst contempt for workers comes from the pervasive Ayn Rand ACOLYTES, who believe that unions and minimum-wage laws force employers to pay the undeserving far more than they’re worth.
(The Indypendent newspaper)
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Who actually was the designer at Calvin Klein all those years, Mr. Klein or his ACOLYTE?
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(The Indypendent newspaper)
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Who actually was the designer at Calvin Klein all those years, Mr. Klein or his ACOLYTE?
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acolyte
noun
- anyone who follows or helps another person, or someone who helps a priest in some religious ceremonies
(Cambridge Dictionaries Online)
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Acolyte stems from the Late Latin acoluthos and Greek akolouthos (following, attending to) by way of the Old French acolite (an inferior officer in the church). The Greek word was formed from "a" (prefix meaning together with) and "keleuthose" (a way, road, path or track), thus leading to the sense of a follower or an attendant.
In many Christian denominations, an acolyte is anyone who performs ceremonial duties such as lighting altar candles. In others, the term is used for someone who has been inducted into a particular liturgical ministry, even when not performing those duties.
In the Roman Catholic Church, the acolyte was originally one of the last of four minor orders of the church. Their duties, as outlined in the Roman Pontifical (the Latin Catholic liturgical book that contains the rites performed by bishops) are primarily to carry the candlesticks, light the lamps of the church and administer wine and water for the Eucharist.
The acolyte has ceased to be a clerical office, with these duties assumed mainly by lay ministers and altar servers (politically correct term for the former "altar boy" or "altar girl").
(sources: Wikipedia, Encyclopaedia Britannica)
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SYNONYMS
follower, assistant, aid, helper, attendant, disciple, hanger-on, groupie
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"He was an acolyte of the CEO until he decided to start his own business."
noun
- anyone who follows or helps another person, or someone who helps a priest in some religious ceremonies
(Cambridge Dictionaries Online)
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Acolyte stems from the Late Latin acoluthos and Greek akolouthos (following, attending to) by way of the Old French acolite (an inferior officer in the church). The Greek word was formed from "a" (prefix meaning together with) and "keleuthose" (a way, road, path or track), thus leading to the sense of a follower or an attendant.
In many Christian denominations, an acolyte is anyone who performs ceremonial duties such as lighting altar candles. In others, the term is used for someone who has been inducted into a particular liturgical ministry, even when not performing those duties.
In the Roman Catholic Church, the acolyte was originally one of the last of four minor orders of the church. Their duties, as outlined in the Roman Pontifical (the Latin Catholic liturgical book that contains the rites performed by bishops) are primarily to carry the candlesticks, light the lamps of the church and administer wine and water for the Eucharist.
The acolyte has ceased to be a clerical office, with these duties assumed mainly by lay ministers and altar servers (politically correct term for the former "altar boy" or "altar girl").
(sources: Wikipedia, Encyclopaedia Britannica)
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SYNONYMS
follower, assistant, aid, helper, attendant, disciple, hanger-on, groupie
---
SMUGGLE OWAD into today's conversation
"He was an acolyte of the CEO until he decided to start his own business."
