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hedge priest

noun

Etymology

From hedge (“third-rate”) + priest. To imply such a priest "plying one's trade under a hedge." Compare hedge alehouse, hedge whore.

Definitions

  1. An ignorant itinerant priest.

    • The Pedant, the Bragart, the Hedge-Prieſt, the Foole, and the Boy. / Abate throw at Nouum, and the whole world againe, / Cannot picke out fiue ſuch, take each one in his vaine.
    • HEDGEPRIEST, an illiterate unbenificed curate, a patrico.

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