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kirkman|ˈkɜːkmən|
[Sc. and north. form of churchman.]
1. An ecclesiastic; = churchman 1. (In later use only Sc.)
c1340[see churchman 1]. c1375Sc. Leg. Saints xl. (Ninian) 560 In quhat wyse Þe kirkmen did þar seruice. 1440in Corr, etc. Priory Coldingham (Surtees) 113 Baith temporal lords and kirkmen. a1548Hall Chron., Hen. VIII, 255 b, Their Kirkmen preached, that in Englande was neither Masse, nor any service of God. 1638Act Assembly in Coll. Conf. II. 115 (Jam.) The civil places and powers of Kirkmen declared to be unlawful. 1733Neal Hist. Purit. II. 238 That part of it [the Act] which referred to the Apparel of Kirkmen. 1853W. Cadenhead Bon-Accord 188 (E.D.D.) Nane but kirkmen daur'd to preach.
2. A member or adherent of the ‘kirk’, i.e. the Church of Scotland: see churchman 4.
1650Nicholas Papers (Camden) 205 The Kirkmen and their faction adhering still very rigidly to their mad principles. 1660R. Coke Power & Subj. 262 The English Presbyterians (who had most basely accepted a canting thing called the Covenant from the Kirkmen of Scotland). 1752Carte Hist. Eng. III. 425 A number of the most zealous kirkmen, meeting at Leonard's Craig near Edenburgh. 1893Dict. Nat. Biog. XXXIII. 1002 Rothes had never been a fanatical puritan; he was a politician and a patriot rather than a kirkman. |