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† church-master dial.
[cf. Ger. kirch-, kirchenmeister.]
Southernized form of kirk-master, a northern equivalent of churchwarden.
[1429Test. Ebor. (1836) I. 417 To the kyrkmasters a nobill.] 1484Churchw. Acc. Wigtoft, nr. Boston (Nichols 1797) 77 John Brigge yonger, and John Barre Chirche Maisters of the paryshe chirche of Wigtoft. 1566in Peacock Eng. Ch. Furniture (1866) 74 Item the aulter stones broken for pave⁓ment..in the times of the forenamed churche Masters 1562. 1886Cole S.W. Lincoln. Gloss. (E.D.S.) s.v., They tell'd me he were Chu'chmester to-year. |