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The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology | 1996 | Copyright

acolyte (eccl.) member of one of the minor orders of the Church XIV; minor attendant XVI. — OF. acolite (mod. -yte) or ecclL. acolytus, -it(h)us — Gr. akólouthos follower.

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