What's the difference between acolyte and attendant?

Acolyte


Definition:

  • (n.) One who has received the highest of the four minor orders in the Catholic church, being ordained to carry the wine and water and the lights at the Mass.
  • (n.) One who attends; an assistant.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Cameron also believes the planned peace talks can lure Assad's acolytes to break with their leader by vowing that if he goes, the existing military and security services will be preserved, saying the aim was "to learn the lessons of Iraq".
  • (2) The Nixon acolytes called themselves “ratfuckers” in a self-congratulatory reference to their proficiency at the darker arts of politics.
  • (3) Then, in October 1998, as the newly appointed foreign minister, he astounded his acolytes by signing the Wye River agreement, facilitated in Maryland by President Bill Clinton, which granted Palestinians control over another 13% of the West Bank.
  • (4) Macmillan and Thatcher paid with their jobs for being too brutal; Blair's downfall at the hands of Brown's acolytes was, to some extent at least, a consequence of him not being brutal enough.
  • (5) He was Bin Laden’s acolyte, his accomplice, his stooge.
  • (6) The London Sivananda centre’s contribution is a boat trip from Putney to Westminster for 300 acolytes and a mass yoga class on the South Bank.
  • (7) The NHS was Britain's Lourdes, its staff priests and acolytes (with consultants as bishops).
  • (8) Boulter said he was "frustrated and upset that Fox issued a statement that said we didn't discuss Acolyte because it made me look like a liar to the world".
  • (9) If you are truly concerned about the problems of pollution, waste, energy depletion, land, water, air and biological conservation, poverty, segregation, intolerance, population containment, fear and disillusionment,” read the sign at the entrance the 25-acre site, “join us.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Paolo Soleri and acolytes study his plans in the mid-70s.
  • (10) Only Dunst's Justine exists, shrouded in solipsism and selfishness, the sort of bubble that allows you to think you make your own rules (such as decreeing a Dogma declaration) and say dumb things and that all your acolytes will still think you're wonderful.
  • (11) He has survived accusations of inactivity and personnel scandals, with one acolyte, a deputy mayor, convicted of fraud.
  • (12) But I was also terrified by her, but she had this elegance and grace," she said during a brief appearance in front of 7,500 Disney acolytes.
  • (13) Polling in the run-up to Christmas suggested a modest bounce in Iowa after several months where he had slipped far behind Clinton, but the numbers look erratic and much depends on whether Sanders can persuade his young acolytes to turn out to the caucuses on 1 February.
  • (14) One of Churchill’s former acolytes, Robert Boothby, was an enthusiast for the United Europe movement, and in 1949 became a delegate to the Council of Europe.
  • (15) The plot plays out a in turbulent late-60s LA inhabited by Manson family acolytes and "counter-subversive" agents at the LAPD.
  • (16) In the meantime, our societies must be resilient enough to absorb “inspired” or “directed” attacks from the Islamic state and its DIY acolytes for the foreseeable future.
  • (17) Doctors, teachers and public service workers have had to pretend that money is more important than patients or pupils - as it all too manifestly is to Blatcher and his acolytes, personally and politically.
  • (18) Even as the terrorists were preparing their attack on Istanbul’s famous Sultanahmet tourist district , Ahmet Davutoğlu, Turkey’s prime minister and loyal Erdoğan acolyte, was looking the wrong way.
  • (19) I'm aware that this confession might make me seem like an acolyte of Nadine Dorries.
  • (20) This is the third time Cameron and his acolytes have rashly, thoughtlessly and emotionally rushed to judgment on significant constitutional issues.

Attendant


Definition:

  • (v. t.) Being present, or in the train; accompanying; in waiting.
  • (v. t.) Accompanying, connected with, or immediately following, as consequential; consequent; as, intemperance with all its attendant evils.
  • (v. t.) Depending on, or owing duty or service to; as, the widow attendant to the heir.
  • (n.) One who attends or accompanies in any character whatever, as a friend, companion, servant, agent, or suitor.
  • (n.) One who is present and takes part in the proceedings; as, an attendant at a meeting.
  • (n.) That which accompanies; a concomitant.
  • (n.) One who owes duty or service to, or depends on, another.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A study of factors influencing genetic counseling attendance rate has been conducted in the Bouches-du-Rhône area, in the south of France.
  • (2) Twelve patients with South American mococutaneous leishmaniasis who attended the Hospital Amazonico in Peru between February and September 1974 were treated with amphotericin B.
  • (3) Inadequate treatment, caused by a lack of drugs and poorly trained medical attendants, is also a major problem.
  • (4) Proving that not all teens are content with being part of a purely digital community, Adele Mayr attended a YouTube meet-up in London’s Hyde Park.
  • (5) Asthma is probably the commonest chronic disease in the United Kingdom, and its attendant morbidity extends outside the possible scope of the hospital sector.
  • (6) Of the 16 cases, 14 (88%) were diagnosed as TSS or probable TSS by the attending physician, although only nine (64%) of the 14 diagnosed cases were given the correct discharge code.
  • (7) After an introductory training program, the students asked the patients arriving at the hospital out-patient clinic for permission to observe them throughout the attendance given.
  • (8) Aryl hydrocarbon hydroxylase (AHH) inducibility, carbon monoxide in expired air (CO), serum gammaglutamyl-transferase (GGT), and total cholesterol were compared in equal-sized, age-matched samples of healthy middle-aged males born in 1921, 1934-1936, and 1946 attending the ongoing preventive medical population program in Malmö.
  • (9) Data from 579 medical students from the classes of 1979-80 through 1983-84 attending a midwestern medical college were analyzed via moderated multiple regression.
  • (10) The first source attended was a private practitioner for 53 % of the patients, another private medical establishment for 4 %, a Government chest clinic for only 11 % and another Government medical establishment for 17 %, 9 % went first to a herbalist and 5 % went to a drug store or treated themselves.
  • (11) After permeabilization, with attendant partial extraction, the preparation can be fixed, then viewed by either deep-etch replication, or by high-resolution scanning electron microscopy, with structure of interest revealed in deep view.
  • (12) The level of infection by Chlamydia trachomatis in patients attending different units of urogenital diseases was evaluated.
  • (13) Information from nurses differs from that provided by attending physicians.
  • (14) Officers arrested her last month during the protest against oil drilling by the energy firm Cuadrilla at Balcombe in West Sussex – a demonstration Lucas has attended several times.
  • (15) Simon Cross, 46, his partner Lizzy Gilliland, 42, and their son Gabriel, two, from Nottingham, expressed the views of many attending.
  • (16) But in a setback to the UK, Somaliland, which broke away from Somalia in 1991, refused British entreaties to attend on the grounds that it would not have been treated as equal to the Somali government.
  • (17) Finally, the contribution of regular dental attendance to periodontal health is discussed.
  • (18) It showed that the proportion of patients attending with recurrent herpes had increased from 18% in 1972 to 31% in 1982.
  • (19) Positive results were rather less common in black patients born in the tropics attending a genitourinary medicine in London and were similar to findings in blood donors in the West Indies.
  • (20) Why would you want to boost him?” The president is accused of trying to distract from domestic problems – corruption scandals and an exposé showing he plagiarised parts of his law-school thesis – by attending to Trump.