| 单词 | vestry meeting |
| 释义 | > as lemmasvestry meeting C2. In sense 2, as vestry assessment, vestry-brother, vestry-business, vestry-consult (= consultation), vestry meeting, etc. ΚΠ 1631 T. Powell Tom of All Trades (1876) 139 Like a Reuerend Vestry wit. 1682 N. O. tr. N. Boileau-Despréaux Lutrin i. 224 Him time preferr'd..From poor Church-warden to a Vestry-brother. 1683 J. Oldham Poems & Transl. 194 At Vestry-Consults when does he appear, For choosing of some Parish-Officer. 1731 Gentleman's Mag. 1 159 In the Parish where I serve, the Vestry is compos'd of thirty select Members, besides the Rector, and two Vestry Justices of the Peace. a1734 R. North Examen (1740) ii. v. §94 374 No more of Plot than a Vestry Meeting to settle their Rates. 1808 Edinb. Rev. July 509 An imperial sovereign summoned to settle a petty vestry-squabble! 1833 Act 3 & 4 William IV c. 37 §63 Such Expences..as have been heretofore defrayed by Vestry Assessment in Ireland. 1888 W. Morris in J. W. Mackail Life W. Morris (1899) II. 206 I don't see why they should not keep out of the vestry-business. < as lemmas |
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