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单词 holy-water clerk
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holy-water clerk
holy-water clerk n. Obsolete one who carried the vessel containing holy water: often spoken of with contempt as holding a mean office.
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holy-water clerk1303
1303 R. Mannyng Handlyng Synne 11592 An holywatyr clerk..þat lytyl haþ lerned yn hys lyue, He ys ordeyned a prest to shryve.
1528 Cowley in State Papers II. 141 A symple Irish preste, a vagabounde, without lernyng, maners, or good qualitye, not worthy to bee a hally-water clerc.
1659 J. Howell Prov. Eng. Toung 10/1 in Lex. Tetraglotton (1660) The Parish-Priest forgetteth that ever he hath been Holy-water Clark.
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