portionist
English edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
portionist (plural portionists)
- One of the incumbents of a benefice that has two or more rectors or vicars.
- (historical) A scholar at Merton College, Oxford, England, who has a certain academical allowance or portion.
- 1867, Orby Shipley, The Church and the World:
- Curates would in fact become Portionists and Incumbents , with a legal status and an independent position within the limit of their appointed jurisdiction
Synonyms edit
- (scholar): postmaster
References edit
- “portionist”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.