sidesman

sidesman. Eccles. law. A church officer who originally reported to the bishop on clerical and congregational misdeeds, including heretical acts, and later became a standing officer whose duties gradually devolved by custom on the churchwarden. — Also termed synodsman; questman.

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译者Eric，毕业于国内一流的高级翻译学院，擅长翻译各种与娱乐与传媒诉讼相关的法律文件。