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Celebrant   /sˈɛləbrənt/   Listen
Celebrant

noun
1.
A person who is celebrating.  Synonyms: celebrater, celebrator.
2.
An officiating priest celebrating the Eucharist.






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"Celebrant" Quotes from Famous Books



... instead." He finished his brother's presses in the sacristy of S. Maria dei Fiori, and, in the opinion of Vasari, surpassed him and became the best master of his period. He died in 1497. Vasari ascribes the celebrant's seat in Pisa Cathedral to Giuliano, together with another of spindlewood, "to be placed in the nave where the women sit," finished and sent home in 1477, and put up by Baccio Pontelli. Milanesi says, however, that the choir of this Cathedral was done by Francesco di Giovanni di ...
— Intarsia and Marquetry • F. Hamilton Jackson

... the pleasure of hearing him discourse about the art of fiction can forget the absolute seriousness of his professional devotion; it was as though a shy celebrant were to turn and explain, with mystical intensity and a mystic's involution and reversal of all the values of vulgar speech, the ceremonial of some strange, high altar. His own power as a creative artist ...
— The American Spirit in Literature, - A Chronicle of Great Interpreters, Volume 34 in The - Chronicles Of America Series • Bliss Perry

... me state what had happened before the proceedings opened in the Piazza del Duomo. At six o'clock mass began at SS. Apostoli, lasting for more than two hours. At its close the celebrant was handed a plate on which were the sacred flints, and these he struck with a steel in view of the congregation, thus igniting a taper. The candle, in an ancient copper porta fuoco surmounted by a dove, ...
— A Wanderer in Florence • E. V. Lucas

... esteemed, and worshipped as Bacchus, or Liber. [923]In Thracia Solem Liberum haberi, quem illi Sebadium nuncupantes magna religione celebrant: eique Deo in colle [924]Zemisso aedes dicata est specie rotunda. In short, all the Gods were one, as we learn from the same ...
— A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume I. • Jacob Bryant

... as celebrant. Deacon, Rev. T. Larkin, sub-deacon Rev. J.P. Nugent, Rev. P.J. Gray acted as master of ceremonies. Father Gray delivered a brief discourse on the life and character of Pope Pius IX. The music by the choir was of high order and excellently ...
— Sixty Years of California Song • Margaret Blake-Alverson



Words linked to "Celebrant" :   person, celebrator, someone, priest, somebody, celebrate, reveler, individual, mortal, merrymaker, reveller, soul



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