Crossword-Solution: OFFICIANT 9 letters, 3 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 17

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Officiant n. The officer who officiates or performs an office, as the
burial office.

We have 3 clues for the answer “OFFICIANT”

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A priest who performs a religious service 1 answer
Insect in charge of a ceremony 1 answer
person who presides and officiates at a religious ceremony 1 answer
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
RAEET
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with OFFICIANT (5)

The officiant paused a moment, stooped, and gathered and threw reverently on the coffin a handful of rattling coral.
In the South Seas Robert Louis Stevenson 2012
Professor von Schroeder remarks that the efficacy of the rite appears to be enhanced by the previous strict observance of the rule of chastity by the officiant.[10] What, however, is of more immediate interest for our purpose is the fact that the Rishyaçrińga story does, in effect, possess certain curious points of contact with the Grail tradition.
From Ritual to Romance Jessie L. Weston 2003
Formerly the Miko was more than a mere officiant: the songs which she is still obliged to learn indicate that she was originally offered to the gods as a bride.
Japan: An Attempt at Interpretation Lafcadio Hearn 2004
Spotless cleanliness being required by the rites of ancestor-worship,--in the temple, in the person of the officiant, and in the home,--this rule of purity was naturally extended by degrees to all the conditions of existence.
Japan: An Attempt at Interpretation Lafcadio Hearn 2004
The silence was so deep that the rustle of the white sleeve of the officiant could be heard when he elevated the cup.
Historical Miniatures August Strindberg 2005

Quotes with OFFICIANT (3)

Yes an atheist priest can perfectly minister to a believing congregation and miracles can happen in that congregation. Miracles depend on the faith of the believer, not that of the officiant. A bartender who never takes alcohol can serve alcohol to his clients. What is necessary is that the priest believes he is doing the good work. The congregation needs faith and it helps them. It would be evil to deny them such a service in the name of his lack of faith. - Bangambiki Habyarimana
Bangambiki Habyarimana Pearls Of Eternity
People stand in front of an officiant and say 'I do' but that shouldn't mean 'I'm done' when comes to putting time and effort to grow their relationship.
Beth Ehemann Room for More
It as mathematical, marriage, not, as one might expect, additional; it was exponential. This one man, nervous in a suite a size too small for his long, lean self, this woman, in a green lace dress cut to the upper thigh, with a white rose behind her ear. Christ, so young. The woman before them was a unitarian minister, and on her buzzed scalp, the grey hairs shone in a swab of sun through the lace in the window. Outside, Poughkeepsie was waking. Behind them, a man in a custod…
Lauren Groff Fates and Furies
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Appears in: NYT.

Used 1 time in crossword archives (1980).