† Kirkshipn.
Obsolete. rare.
With possessive adjective: a mock title of respect for a dignitary of the Kirk or Church of Scotland.In quot. 1710 used with reference to the Low Church views of the Bishop of Salisbury, Gilbert Burnet, and his openness to compromise with the Presbyterians.
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1662 H. Foulis Hist. Wicked Plots i. ix. 70 The Presbyterie were so far from suffering Bishops to sit, (as if they had not been Clergy-men) that they would have had them to appear before their Kirkships as guilty persons, and so to be proceeded against.
1710 Polit. Ballads (1860) II. 95 To know what his Kirkship wou'd have em to do.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2011; most recently modified version published online June 2018).
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