| 单词 | kirk rent |
| 释义 | > as lemmaskirk rent kirk rent n. now historical and rare = church rent n. at church n.1 and adj. Compounds 2; usually in plural. ΚΠ 1562 N. Winȝet Certain Tractates (1888) I. 8 Thay ar..bund subditis to..auarice, neuir intendand to clenge thair handis of the kirk rentis. 1599 R. Pont Against Sacrilege iii. sig. Hv All the Kirk rent is exhausted vpon greedie gormandes, carelesse of Religion. 1675 in M. Wood Extracts Rec. Burgh Edinb. (1950) X. 247 Collectors of the impositione, chamber annuitie, kirkrents and hospitall. 1869 Proc. Semicentenary Celebration Presbyterian Board of Educ. 39 He was..entitled to a seat in the Presbytery, and was by law paid out of the kirk-rents. 1901 W. Morison Johnston of Warriston 69 It voted him a salary of 1000 merks a year as Advocate to the Kirk, and 50 merks as Clerk—to be paid out of the Kirk rents of the late bishoprics. 1989 J. Kirk Patterns of Reform viii. 312 One critic..depicted the bishop in his later years as squandering kirk rents from St Andrews Priory. < as lemmas |
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