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One who is rigorous; -- sometimes applied to an extreme Jansenist.

A sacristan; also, a person retained in a cathedral to copy out music for the choir, and take care of the books.

An officer of the church who has the care of the utensils or movables, and of the church in general; a sexton.

A apartment in a church where the sacred utensils, vestments, etc., are kept; a vestry.

A member of the sanhedrin. Schaeffer (Lange's Com. ).

A sanitarian.

One who satirizes; especially, one who writes satire. The mighty satirist, who . . . had spread through the Whig ranks. Macaulay.

, the Scriptures, or who endeavors to regulate his life by them. The Puritan was a Scripturist with all his heart, if as yet with imperfect intelligence . . . he cherished the scheme of looking to the Word of God as his sole and universal directory. Palfrey.

A sectary. [R.] T. Warton.

One who theoretically rejects every form of religious faith, and every kind of religious worship, and accepts only the facts and influences which are derived from the present life; also, one who believes that education and other matters of civil policy should be managed without the introduction of a religious element.…

One who manages or operates a semaphore.

Half Christianized.

A member of, or one educated in, a seminary; specifically, an ecclesiastic educated for the priesthood in a seminary.

A sententiary. Barnas Sears (Life of Luther).

An agent in the massacres in Paris, committed in patriotic frenzy, on the 22d of September, 1792.

One who holds to the doctrine of signatures impressed upon objects, indicative of character or qualities. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

One who has a sinecure.

One who affects singularity. [Obs.] A clownish singularist, or nonconformist to ordinary usage. Borrow.

days of alchemy, who sought to discover remedies for disease by chemical means. The spagyrists historically preceded the iatrochemists. Encyc. Brit.

One who forms structures; a builder; a constructor. [R.]