单词 | chop-church |
释义 | † chop-churchn. Obsolete. A dealer or trafficker in ecclesiastical benefices; one of ‘those secular priests who drove a trade, or made an advantage by exchanging of their benefices’ (Kennett); also called church-chopper. ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > benefice > simony > [noun] > one characterized by simoniac1340 chop-church1391 simonient1395 Simonianc1400 simonialc1405 simoniera1425 gyesite1426 barrator1427 simoner1438 simoniacle1502 simonite1508 Balaamite1559 simonist1567 chopper1581 benefice-monger1583 church-chopper1631 chop-living1634 1391 in H. Spelman Concilia in re Ecclesiarum II. 642 Alii vero quorundam satorum ziganniæ.., ut illis verbis utamur Choppe churches communiter appellati. a1500 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 594 Manglisa, a choppechurche. 1581 W. Lambarde Eirenarcha (1588) iv. v. 488 Chopchurch, Merchaunt, Grocer..Spinster, &c. bee good Additions of misterie. But Citizen is not, because it is no misterie, arte or degree. 1695 in W. Kennett Parochial Antiq. (1818) II. 201 Those Chop-churches, against whom some late constitutions had been made in this diocese. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online March 2021). < |
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