| 单词 |
preachership |
| 释义 |
preachership|ˈpriːtʃəʃɪp|
[f. as prec. + -ship.]
The office of a preacher.
a1656Bp. Hall Specialities in Life Wks. 1808 I. p. xxxii, By occasion of the public preachership of St. Edmund's Bury then offered me upon good conditions. 1757Warburton Lett. to Hurd cxvi. (1809) 259 You have seen by the papers the disposition of the preachership to Dr. Ross. 1855Macaulay Hist. Eng. xiv. III. 459 Jeremy Collier, who was turned out of the preachership of the Rolls, was a man of a much higher order. 1900Westm. Gaz. 27 Nov. 12/1 To secure a fitting successor to the Rev. T. W. Lupton, who has been Preacher of Gray's Inn for many years... The Preachership has been held by many distinguished men in the past. 1903M. A. Tucker in Eng. Hist. Rev. Apr. 283 In 1503..the Lady Margaret preachership was founded through the influence of John Fisher, at that time vice-chancellor of the University of Cambridge.
b. With his, your, as a humorous title.
1772Nugent tr. Hist. Friar Gerund I. 483 What does his Preachership mean? |
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