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doorkeeper collapse: someone who guards an entrance; the lowest of the minor Holy Orders in the unreformed Western Church but now suppressed by the Roman Catholic Church

haunted collapse: having or showing excessive or compulsive concern with something; "became more and more haunted by the stupid riddle"; "was absolutely obsessed with the girl"; "got no help from his wife who was preoccupied with the children"; "he was taken up in worry for the old woman"; inhabited by or as if by apparitions; "a haunted house"; showing emotional affliction or disquiet; "her expression became progressively more haunted"

dean collapse: an administrator in charge of a division of a university or college; (Roman Catholic Church) the head of the College of Cardinals; a man who is the senior member of a group; "he is the dean of foreign correspondents"; United States film actor whose moody rebellious roles made him a cult figure (1931-1955)

vicar collapse: a Roman Catholic priest who acts for another higher-ranking clergyman; (Church of England) a clergyman appointed to act as priest of a parish; (Episcopal Church) a clergyman in charge of a chapel

patriarch collapse: a man who is older and higher in rank than yourself; any of the early biblical characters regarded as fathers of the human race; the male head of family or tribe; title for the heads of the Eastern Orthodox Churches (in Istanbul and Alexandria and Moscow and Jerusalem)

exorcist collapse: someone who practices exorcism; one of the minor orders in the unreformed Western Church but now suppressed in the Roman Catholic Church

weedy collapse: abounding with or resembling weeds; "a weedy path"; "weedy plants that take over a garden"

assonant collapse: having the same vowel sound occurring with different consonants in successive words or stressed syllables; having the same sound (especially the same vowel sound) occurring in successive stressed syllables; "note the assonant words and syllables in `tilting at windmills'"

pastor collapse: only the rose-colored starlings; in some classifications considered a separate genus

primate collapse: any placental mammal of the order Primates; has good eyesight and flexible hands and feet

lector collapse: a public lecturer at certain universities; someone who reads the lessons in a church service; someone ordained in a minor order of the Roman Catholic Church

scribe collapse: informal terms for journalists; French playwright (1791-1861); score a line on with a pointed instrument, as in metalworking

clergyman collapse: a member of the clergy and a spiritual leader of the Christian Church

monk collapse: a male religious living in a cloister and devoting himself to contemplation and prayer and work; United States jazz pianist who was one of the founders of the bebop style (1917-1982)

singsong collapse: a regular and monotonous rising and falling intonation; speak, chant, or declaim in a singsong; move as if accompanied by a singsong; "The porters singsonged the travellers' luggage up the mountain"

threadbare collapse: having the nap worn away so that the threads show through; "threadbare rugs"

acolyte collapse: someone who assists a priest or minister in a liturgical service; a cleric ordained in the highest of the minor orders in the Roman Catholic Church but not in the Anglican Church or the Eastern Orthodox Churches

canon collapse: a collection of books accepted as holy scripture especially the books of the Bible recognized by any Christian church as genuine and inspired; a complete list of saints that have been recognized by the Roman Catholic Church; a rule or especially body of rules or principles generally established as valid and fundamental in a field or art or philosophy; "the neoclassical canon"; "canons of polite society"; a contrapuntal piece of music in which a melody in one part is imitated exactly in other parts; a priest who is a member of a cathedral chapter

cardinal collapse: crested thick-billed North American finch having bright red plumage in the male; a variable color averaging a vivid red; (Roman Catholic Church) one of a group of more than 100 prominent bishops in the Sacred College who advise the Pope and elect new Popes; serving as an essential component; "a cardinal rule"; "the central cause of the problem"; "an example that was fundamental to the argument"; "computers are fundamental to modern industrial structure"; being or denoting a numerical quantity but not order; "cardinal numbers"

flourishing collapse: having or showing vigorous vegetal or animal life; "flourishing crops"; "flourishing chicks"; "a growing boy"; "fast-growing weeds"; "a thriving deer population"

important person collapse: a person whose actions and opinions strongly influence the course of events

unstrung collapse: emotionally upset; "the incident left him unstrung and incapable of rational effort"

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