chopchurch

English edit

Etymology edit

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

Noun edit

chopchurch (plural chopchurches)

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

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “chopchurch”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)