HOLT

1Sax. In old English law. A wood or grove. Spelman; Cowell; Co. Litt. 4b. HOLY ORDERS, In ecclesiastical law. The orders of bishops, (including archbishops,) priests, and deacons in the Church of England. The Roman canonists had the or- ' ders of bishop, {in which the pope ·and arch- 1bishops were included,) priest, deacon, subdeacon, psalmist, acolyte, exorcist, reader, ostiarius. 3 •Steph. Comm. 55, and note a. / [s. 580]