a. h. sexton
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| —n | |
| 1. | a person employed to act as caretaker of a church and its contents and graveyard, and often also as bell-ringer, gravedigger, etc |
| 2. | another name for the burying beetle |
| [C14: from Old French secrestein, from Medieval Latin sacristānus | |
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A. h. sexton
is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
| a chattering or flighty, light-headed person. |
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sexton
c.1300, sekesteyn, "person in charge of the sacred objects of a church," from O.Fr. segrestien, from M.L. sacristanus (see sacristan). Sense of "custodian of a church" first recorded 1582.
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