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Meaning of যাজক in English

  • The office, position, or station of a chaplain.
  • An officer in Christian churches appointed to perform certain subordinate duties varying in different communions. In the Roman Catholic and Episcopal churches, a person admitted to the lowest order in the ministry, subordinate to the bishops and priests. In Presbyterian churches, he is subordinate to the minister and elders, and has charge of certain duties connected with the communion service and the care of the poor. In Congregational churches, he is subordinate to the pastor, and has duties as in the Presbyterian church.
  • The chairman of an incorporated company.
  • To read aloud each line of (a psalm or hymn) before singing it, -- usually with off.
  • A dignitary or presiding officer in certain ecclesiastical and lay bodies; esp., an ecclesiastical dignitary, subordinate to a bishop.
  • The collegiate officer in the universities of Oxford and Cambridge, England, who, besides other duties, has regard to the moral condition of the college.
  • The head or presiding officer in the faculty of some colleges or universities.
  • A registrar or secretary of the faculty in a department of a college, as in a medical, or theological, or scientific department.
  • The chief or senior of a company on occasion of ceremony; as, the dean of the diplomatic corps; -- so called by courtesy.
  • of Ordinary
  • A shepherd; one who has the care of flocks and herds.
  • A guardian; a keeper; specifically (Eccl.), a minister having the charge of a church and parish.
  • A species of starling (Pastor roseus), native of the plains of Western Asia and Eastern Europe. Its head is crested and glossy greenish black, and its back is rosy. It feeds largely upon locusts.
  • A presbyter elder; a minister
  • One who is authorized to consecrate the host and to say Mass; but especially, one of the lowest order possessing this power.
  • A presbyter; one who belongs to the intermediate order between bishop and deacon. He is authorized to perform all ministerial services except those of ordination and confirmation.
  • One who officiates at the altar, or performs the rites of sacrifice; one who acts as a mediator between men and the divinity or the gods in any form of religion; as, Buddhist priests.
  • To ordain as priest.

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