† trencher-chaplainn.
Obsolete.
A chaplain who eats at a patron's table; a domestic chaplain. contemptuous.
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1589 ‘M. Marprelate’ Hay any Worke for Cooper 37 I doe disdaine to deale with a contemptible trencher chaplaine.
1610 J. Boys Expos. Domin. Epist. in Wks. (1630) 511 It is the fashion of parasites and trencher-Chaplaines to flatter, or at the least humour great men at their table.
1676 A. Marvell Mr. Smirke sig. B4 It savors of the Liquorishness of a Trencher-Chaplain, little concerned in the Curâ Animarum.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online March 2021).
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