votary meaning

votary as a noun

1. one bound by vows to a religion or life of worship or service
   • monasteries of votaries

   Type of: religious

2. a priest or priestess (or consecrated worshipper) in a non-Christian religion or cult
   • a votary of Aphrodite

   Type of: priest

   Kinds: vestal virgin, bacchant, bacchante

3. a devoted (almost religiously so) adherent of a cause or person or activity
   • the cultured votary of science

   Type of: disciple