Crossword clues for verger
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Verger \Ver"ger\, n. [F. verger, from verge a rod. See 1st Verge.] One who carries a verge, or emblem of office. Specifically:
An attendant upon a dignitary, as on a bishop, a dean, a justice, etc. [Eng.]
--Strype.The official who takes care of the interior of a church building.
Verger \Ver"ger\, n. A garden or orchard. [Obs.]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"one who carries a verge as an officer of the church," c.1400, probably from Anglo-French *verger, from verge (see verge (n.)).
Wiktionary
n. 1 One who carries a verge, or emblem of office. 2 (context chiefly British English) A lay person who takes care of the interior of a church and acts as an attendant during services, where he or she carries the verge (or virge). An usher; in major ecclesiastical landmarks, a tour guide. In the United States, the office is generally combined with that of sexton. 3 (context UK English) An attendant upon a dignitary, such as a bishop or dean, a justice, etc.
WordNet
n. a church officer who takes care of the interior of the building and acts as an attendant (carries the verge) during ceremonies
Wikipedia
A verger (or virger, so called after the staff of the office) is a person, usually a layperson, who assists in the ordering of religious services, particularly in Anglican churches.
A verger is a person who assists in the ordering of religious services.
Verger may also refer to:
- Verger (surname)
- El Verger, a town in Marina Alta, Alicante, Valencian Community, Spain
- Le Verger, a commune in Ille-et-Vilaine, Bretagne, France
- Saint-Quentin-le-Verger, a commune in the Marne department in north-eastern France
For the fictional verger in the BBC TV series Dad's Army, see Maurice Yeatman.
People with the surname Verger:
- Charles Paumier du Verger, early 20th-century Belgian sports shooter
- François Verger (born 1911), a French field hockey player
- Georges Verger, French long-distance runner who competed in the 1924 Olympics
- Giovanni Battista Verger (1796 – after 1844), Italian operatic tenor and impresario
- Joanne Verger (21st century), an American politician
- Jean-Louis Verger (1826–1857), French priest, assassin of Archbishop Marie-Dominique-Auguste Sibour
- Margot Verger, a minor (fictional) character in the novel Hannibal
- Mason Verger, the main (fictional) antagonist of the novel Hannibal
- Pierre Edouard Leopold Verger (1902–1996), a French photographer
- Virginie Morel du Verger (Christiane) (1779 – 17 December 1870), French pianist, music teacher, and composer.
Usage examples of "verger".
Spivens was over by the vestry steps digging up something, and Carruthers was trying to convince the verger we were from the Auxiliary Fire Service.
I was going to have to get him back to Oxford without making the verger suspicious, get him to Infirmary, and then try to get back here to finish searching the cathedral and probably end up in a marrows field halfway to Liverpool.
The verger had been gone for at least an hour having his tea, during which time anyone could have walked in through the nonexistent south door and carried off anything they liked.
I looked over at Carruthers, but he was deep in royal conversation with the verger and, presumably, getting some information out of him.
For Lulu and a thousand others, let me remind, I, Monsieur Verger, did it all!
Awed, even a little frightened by his new Lulu, Monsieur Verger limited himself to a single peep while she redressed.
It was, of course, a very unorthodox thing for the verger to go away and leave the Abbey unattended, even for half an hour, but vergers, after all, are only human, and enjoy a cup of tea as much as other people who do not wear black cassocks.
It was no cassock-clad verger that entered, however, but two young people, far too much interested in each other to gaze upwards towards the frets of the peep-hole.
At last the quiet well-trained footsteps of the verger echoed again in the nave.
They were terrified lest the verger should remember that he had left the tower door open, and should lock them in.
There was a pause while the verger fetched a music stand and placed it close to the chancel steps.
Declan Ewan, the Verger, watched the rain pelting down the hill in eager rivulets, and gathering into a little sea outside the vestry gate.
It looked round, perhaps because it heard the warnings the Verger was yelling, but more likely, he thought, because it knew, knew without being told, that the woman had been found.
There was also Father Varennes, the Verger, and far away in one of the small chapels opening from the apse in the eastern end good Mother Meraut was down upon her knees, not praying as you might suppose, but scrubbing the stone floor.
The Verger peered through the arched opening, and sniffed the wet, soapy smell which pervaded the air.