What is "hierodules"

Usage examples of "hierodules".

Master Severian, let me present the honorable Hierodules Ossipago, Barbatus, and Famulimus.

The hideous faces I had glimpsed in the Autarch's garden filled my mind and I waited in dread for the noise of a shot, though I knew that if the Hierodules chose to shoot me—and all energy weapons came ultimately from them—I would probably never hear it.

I remember that what we now call librarians were then called hierodules, which means holy slaves.

It was like a theocracy, except that the priests and hierodules of the multitude of temples claimed no special power or privileges.

Most were hierodules, but Tibor had been sold on the open market after the shrine of his temple had failed at the beginning of the war against the heretics.

Now I have the chance, and it is the chance I sought for years as I went up and down the seven continents of this world seeking the Hierodules and tinkering with clumsy mechanisms.

The Hierodules dialed down their beams and tried to turn him back instead of killing him.