单词 | holy-water clerk |
释义 | > as lemmasholy-water clerk ΘΚΠ society > faith > church government > member of the clergy > person in minor orders > acolyte > [noun] > bearing holy water 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. < as lemmas |
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