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kirk-master, -maister north. dial.
1. In northern English, A churchwarden.
1429Test. Ebor. (Surtees) I. 417 Item to the kyrkmasters a nobill. 1512Churchw. Acc. Wigtoft, Linc. (Nichols 1797) 205 Ye cayrke maysters of Wygtoft. 1674–91Ray N.C. Words 41 Kyrkmaster, Churchwarden. 1876Mid. Yorksh. Gloss. s.v. Kirk, Kirkmaister..often heard from old Mid-Yorkshire people.
†2. Sc.
a. ‘A deacon in the church, one who has the charge of ecclesiastical temporalities’ (Jam.).
b. The deacon of an incorporated trade: see deacon 3. Obs. rare.
1505in Pennecuik Blue Blanket (1756) 44 Compeired..the Kirk-Master and Brether of the Surgeons and Barbaris. 1522in Charters of St. Giles, Edin. (Bann.) 213–16 Kirk⁓maisters of the confrary and altare of the haly blude. 1572Sc. Acts Jas. VI (1814) III. 76* Thair was not Kirkmaisteris or Deaconis appointit in the Parochinnis to ressaue the taxatioun appointit. |