| 单词 | house priest |
| 释义 | > as lemmashouse priest house priest n. ΚΠ ?1591 H. Barrow Brief Discouerie False Church 46 Of the seruing sort, are Parsons, Vickars, Curates, hireling Lecturers, vagrant & mercenarie Preachers, house priestes, Chaplens, [etc.]. 1784 Amer. Fugitive lv. 244 I myself would have conducted her [to Calais], but being the house-priest, I could not..desert my office. 1886 W. D. Howells Indian Summer xviii. 304 The suave house-priest manners of the young clergyman offended Colville. 1921 E. W. Burlingame tr. Buddhist Legends I. i. 256 Seeing the house-priest returning from the royal residence, he asked him [etc.]. 2008 S. F. King Lady Macbeth (2009) xviii. 165 Your father..had me carried to Fife and nursed to health. In return he asked me to be his house priest. < as lemmas |
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