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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 ac·o·lyte /ˈækəˌlaɪt/
 侍僧,助手

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Ac·o·lyte n.
 1. Eccl. 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.
 2. One who attends; an assistant. “With such chiefs, and with James and John as acolytes.”
 

From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 acolyte
      n : someone who assists a priest or minister in a liturgical
          service; a cleric ordained in the highest of the minor
          orders in the Roman Catholic Church but not in the
          Anglican Church or the Eastern Orthodox Churches