English to afrikaans meaning of

Die woordeboekbetekenis van die woord "akoliet" is 'n persoon wat 'n lid van die geestelikes in 'n liturgiese diens bystaan deur geringe pligte uit te voer soos om kerse aan te steek, die kruis te dra en antwoorde te maak. Die term kan ook verwys na 'n toegewyde volgeling of assistent van iemand in 'n posisie van mag of invloed.

Sentence Examples

  1. The bachelor offered to write the letters in reply for Teresa but she did not care to let him mix himself up in her affairs, for she thought him somewhat given to joking and so she gave a cake and a couple of eggs to a young acolyte who was a penman, and he wrote for her two letters, one for her husband and the other for the duchess, dictated out of her own head, which are not the worst inserted in this great history, as will be seen farther on.