| 释义 |
sextonship|ˈsɛkstənʃɪp|
[f. sexton + -ship.]
The office or position of a sexton.
1511–2Rec. St. Mary at Hill (1905) 279 Paid to William Wylde for his wages this yere for the sextenship. 1597Return fr. Parnass. ii. i. 671, I am double benefisde with my sextonshipp and my clearkeshippe! 1731–2Swift Consid. 2 Bills Wks. 1737 VI. 152 They may get a Dispensation to hold the Clerkship and Sextonship of their own Parish in Commendam. 1816Byron Churchill's Grave 13 And thus he answer'd—..‘He died before my day of Sextonship, And I had not the digging of this grave.’ 1833Sir F. Palgrave Corporate Reform 7 The Candidate for the sextonship grounds his pretensions on being an ‘Old inhabitant’. 1903Macm. Mag. Feb. 269/1 [He] cherished open aspirations towards the sextonship, presently vacant. |