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ˈvestryman
Also vestry-man, vestry man.
[f. vestry1 2.]
A member of a parochial vestry. Also fig.
1614in W. H. Hale Prec. Causes Office (1841) 39 So many of the vestrie men as shall..meet there for the makeing of a rate. 1641‘Smectymnuus’ Vind. Answ. Pref. a iij b, Indeede hee saith, that these were but as our Church⁓wardens, or Vestry men. 1651Cleveland Poems 26 These Linsie-Woolsie Vestry-men. 1701Maryland Laws (1723) 15 Two New Vestrymen shall be annually chosen in the Places of Two others. a1721Prior True Statesmen 35 If thou ever has't a voice Tho it be only in the Choice Of Vestry Men or grey-Coat-Boys. 1847C. G. Addison Law of Contracts xv. §3. 391 Vestrymen, in vestry assembled, may, like any other persons, exceed their duties as vestrymen. 1873B. Harte Fiddletown 37 She was roused by a formal visit from a vestryman. 1910Blackw. Mag. Apr. 585/1 Mr. Shaw is the vestry⁓man of dramatists. His work savours horribly of St. Pancras.
Hence ˈvestrymanly a., befitting a vestryman; ˈvestrymanship, the position of a vestryman.
1885Pall Mall G. 12 Jan. 4/1 That may be *vestrymanly, but it is hardly gentlemanly.
1879Escott England I. 123 The mere fact of a parochial office being the coveted prize of a political competition raises its duties above the level of *vestrymanship. |