vestrymann.
/ˈvɛstrɪmən/, U.S. /ˈvɛstrimən/ A member of a parochial vestry. Also figurative.
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vestryman1614
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vestry-keeper1477
vestryman1614
1614 in W. H. Hale Prec. Causes Office (1841) 39 So many of the vestrie men as shall..meet there for the makeing of a rate.
1641 ‘Smectymnuus’ Vindic. Answer Hvmble Remonstr. Pref. sig. a iijv Indeede hee saith, that these were but as our Church~wardens, or Vestry men.
1647 J. Cleveland Poems in Char. London-diurnall (Wing C4662) 30 These Linsie-Woolsie Vestry-men.
1701 Maryland Laws (1723) 15 Two New Vestrymen shall be annually chosen in the Places of Two others.
a1721 M. Prior True Statesmen 35 If thou ever has't a voice Tho it be only in the Choice Of Vestry Men or grey-Coat-Boys.
1847 C. G. Addison Treat. Law Contracts xv. §3. 391 Vestrymen, in vestry assembled, may, like any other persons, exceed their duties as vestrymen.
1873 B. Harte Episode of Fiddletown 37 She was roused by a formal visit from a vestryman.
1910 Blackwood's Mag. Apr. 585/1 Mr. Shaw is the vestry~man of dramatists. His work savours horribly of St. Pancras.
Derivatives
ˈvestrymanly adj. befitting a vestryman.
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vestrymanly1885
1885 Pall Mall Gaz. 12 Jan. 4/1 That may be vestrymanly, but it is hardly gentlemanly.
ˈvestrymanship n. the position of a vestryman.
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vestrymanship1879
1879 T. H. S. Escott England I. 123 The mere fact of a parochial office being the coveted prize of a political competition raises its duties above the level of vestrymanship.
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