noun
definition
A church official who looks after a church building and its graveyard and may act as a gravedigger and bell-ringer.
definition
A sexton beetle.
Examples of sexton in a Sentence
Beecher was sexton as well as preacher.
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The teacher, Mrs. Smith, was a widow who was also sexton of the church.
Roles within the church also gave rise to a number of occupation-related surnames, including Abbott, Bishop, Cannon, Chaplin, Parson, and Sexton.
He bribed the sexton to lay him next to Cathy with no casket walls between them when he dies.
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I still feel that working as a church sexton should be part of all seminary degree (for the pastorate) programs.
This survey of female sidekicks comes full circle with another look at the Sexton Blake saga.
Cato was outstanding, and Tommy Sexton and Mark Selby were almost untouchable up front.
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In 1759 he wrote a skit on a quarrel between Dean Fountayne and Dr Topham, a York lawyer, over the bestowal of an office in the gift of the archbishop. This sketch, in which Topham figures as Trim the sexton, and the author as Lorry Slim, gives an earnest of Sterne's powers as a humorist.
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This was a bonus year for UNION JACK readers as the paper gave away 7 high busts of Sexton Blake.
His real genius, however, did not lie in the direction of verse; and his first signal success was with a story, A Village Sexton's Diary, in 1824, which was rapidly followed by other tales, descriptive of village life in Jutland, for the next twelve years.
The other officials are the parish clerk and sexton.
World champion Katy Sexton won the 200m backstroke, ahead of Loughborough's Karen Lee.
The only relief from his Japanese captors was a battered volume he had found from the Sexton Blake Library.
In 1956 for the first time in fifty years the Sexton Blake saga was given a face-lift.
In response, Reece goes on a murderous rampage which draws Sexton Blake into the affair.
But it was Sexton Blake who found the trapdoor.
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A burial ground, properly so called, has to be divided into consecrated and unconsecrated portions, and the former really takes the place of the parish churchyard; and the incumbent of the parish church, the clerk, and the sexton continue to receive the same fees upon burials in the consecrated portion as they would have done in the parish churchyard.
His father was poor, having to put together a subsistence by uniting the humble offices of sexton, choir-singer and petty schoolmaster.