ministrant

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“Here is to your health, ministrant spirit!” he said.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë

On the whole subject of the use of the skins of animals as clothing of the god or the ministrant, see Lobeck, Aglaoph., pp. 188-186, and Robertson Smith, op. cit.

From Myth, Ritual And Religion, Vol. 2 (of 2) by Lang, Andrew

The ministrant addressed the postulant, “Brother, dost thou wish to give thyself to our faith?”

From A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume I by Lea, Henry Charles

Meek, patient, steadfast, she devotes herself to every duty and right that life has left to her; and the dark-garmented Piagnone moves about the busy scene a white-robed ministrant of mercy and love. 

From The Ethics of George Eliot's Works by Brown, John Crombie

In 525the worship of ancestors, which satisfies the daily religious needs of the people, every householder and every civil official is a ministrant.

From Introduction to the History of Religions Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume IV by Jastrow, Morris