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ˈhedge-priest
[See hedge n. 8 a.]
An illiterate or uneducated priest of inferior status. (contemptuous.)
1550J. Coke Eng. & Fr. Heralds §167 (1877) 107 In Fraunce..the most parte of your speritual men..be symple persons, hedge priestes not lerned. a1568R. Ascham Scholem. ii. (Arb.) 136 Therefore did som of them at Cambrige..cause hedge priestes fette oute of the contrie to be made fellowes in the vniuersitie. a1617Bayne On Eph. (1658) 8 In times of superstition every hedge-priest's blessing was highly esteemed. 1874Green Short Hist. iii. §1. 116 The whole body of the clergy, from Pope to hedge-priest. |