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chopchurch

noun

Etymology

From chop + church. See chop (“to barter”).

  1. derived from *ḱewh₁-✻
  2. derived from κυριακόν
  3. inherited from *kirikā✻
  4. inherited from ċiriċe
  5. inherited from chirche
  6. compounded as chopchurch — “chop + church”

Definitions

  1. An exchanger of benefices

    An exchanger of benefices; one of a class of secular priests who trafficked in ecclesiastical benefices.

The neighborhood

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