What's the difference between sacristy and vestment?

Sacristy


Definition:

  • (n.) An apartment in a church where the sacred utensils, vestments, etc., are kept; a vestry.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Lynn's conviction stems from the transfer of accused priest Edward Avery to a new parish, where he was later accused of raping a former altar boy in the church sacristy.
  • (2) The vigil capped a busy day for the pope in which he drove home a message he has emphasizsed throughout the week in speeches, homilies and off-the-cuff remarks: the need for Catholics, lay and religious, to shake up the status quo, get out of their stuffy sacristies and reach the faithful on the margins of society or risk losing them to rival churches.
  • (3) This enabled him to see the places he describes so vividly in his book: the Casa Santa Marta, the hall of residence-like building, staffed by nuns, where the cardinals bunk down during the conclave; the Pauline Chapel, with its two frescoes by Michelangelo, where they attend a sermon before withdrawing to the Sistine Chapel to vote; and the Sacristy, where the new pope is robed.
  • (4) Saturday night's vigil capped a busy day for the pope in which he drove home a message he has emphasised throughout the week in speeches, homilies and off-the-cuff remarks: the need for Catholics – lay and religious – to shake up the status quo, get out of their stuffy sacristies and reach the faithful on the margins of society or risk losing them to rival churches.
  • (5) Check out the El Greco Museum, the only one in the country dedicated to the painter, but also take in an early masterpiece and the painter’s simple wooden tomb in the monastery of Santo Domingo el Antiguo, in the furthest reaches of the old town, and the great El Greco altarpiece of 1577, fresh from restoration, in the cathedral’s sacristy.

Vestment


Definition:

  • (n.) A covering or garment; some part of clothing or dress
  • (n.) any priestly garment.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) His consecration took place at an ice hockey stadium in Durham, New Hampshire, and he wore a bulletproof vest under his gold vestments because he had received death threats.
  • (2) They adhered to and, when capacitated, penetrated the vestments of the oocyte of an ape--the gibbon, Hylobates lar--both in vivo and in vitro.
  • (3) This test does not evaluates the sperm transit from the vagina to the site of fertilization nor the sperm passage through the human egg vestments.
  • (4) Charles's sombre but still-beautiful features, the waterfall of black curls, the exquisite lace at his throat, the satin and velvet of the royal vestments inspired the artists of the day to some memorable work.
  • (5) Penetration of human sperm through the vestments of human oocytes during the first 3 h after insemination was investigated to determine the time taken for sperm capacitation, which precedes the acrosome reaction and fertilization.
  • (6) In conclusion, interference of ASA on spontaneous AR rate during "in vitro" capacitation can not be advocated as an explanation of the impairment of the interaction of human sperm with egg or its vestments, which have been reported in several studies.
  • (7) A photo released by the Castro family showed the 89-year-old former president and Francis looking into each other’s eye as they shook hands, the pope dressed in his white vestments and Castro in an Adidas track jacket.
  • (8) Wearing vestments of penitential purple, Francis said he had decided to come to the island after learning of a recent incident in which migrants had died while attempting the crossing from north Africa.
  • (9) Although the vestments and oolemma seem normally receptive to spermatozoa, fusion with the oolemma of the primary oocyte did not elicit exocytosis of cortical granules, and consequently multiple entry of spermatozoa into the ooplasm was common.
  • (10) The kinematics and consequences of hyperactivated sperm motion are presented, with emphasis on objective characterization of such motion (as a biomarker), along with analysis of the mechanical advantage that such motion may confer on spermatozoa during egg-vestment interaction.
  • (11) The innermost vestment, the zona pellucida, is a glycoprotein shell, which captures and tethers the sperm before they penetrate it.
  • (12) Mechanisms of mammalian sperm migration through the female reproductive tract and ovum vestments are described.
  • (13) However, the resumption of meiosis brings an increase in the penetrability of the granulosa cell vestment as well as the capacity for cortical granule exocytosis and the ability to decondense and transform the fertilizing sperm nucleus.
  • (14) In an instinctive impulse I parted from my guardian and walked toward a square tank filled with water, and quickly started to strip myself from my poor vestments.
  • (15) Micro-insemination is indicated in spermatozoa with no or very poor motility, very low density, multiple defects, or inability to penetrate oocyte vestments.
  • (16) Older people thought that younger people would find it off-putting – but in fact younger people thought it was mysterious and exciting.” Some of the loans come from the Vatican, where Pope Innocent IV commissioned pieces when he noticed what magnificent vestments English bishops were wearing.
  • (17) All these cytokines are present in significant quantities in the CM and were shown to be expressed in a sequential manner; thus, some are present in the oocyte and its vestment, the corona-cumulus complex (IL-1, IL-6, and CSF-1), whereas TNF appears only at the stage of six to eight-cell embryos.
  • (18) In the head, the equatorial segment of the acrosome is recessed within a waist in the sperm nucleus in a way that could afford some protection for this fusogenic region, perhaps during penetration of the egg vestments.
  • (19) Vestments from Reykjavík in Iceland were possibly commissioned as a gift to the church by some fabulously wealthy merchant with a guilty conscience – the thread, glittering as if new, proved to be almost pure gold.
  • (20) Julian's vile crime-lord mother (Kristin Scott Thomas) arrives seeking vengeance, arrayed in all the lurid vestments of the Real Housewives Of Miami Vice, and berates Julian endlessly on matters of cock size and spinelessness.

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