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spin-text
Also spintext.
[f. spin v. + text n., originally as a suggestive surname.]
A clergyman or parson, esp. one who preaches long or weak sermons.
1693Congreve Old Bachelor i. i, Talks of sending for Mr. Spintext to keep me Company... Spintext! Oh, the fanatick one-eyed parson! c1700T. Brown Lett. fr. Dead Wks. II. 236 Representing Mr. Spin-text the Preacher, or Mr. Love-Lady the Chaplain, after a ridiculous manner. 1712Ward Yng. Libertine's Answ. Wks. III. ii. 33 Imploying some superannuated Spintext, to rattle off your poor Nephew. 1788V. Knox Winter Even. I. iii. ii. 243 The race of formal spintexts and solemn saygraces is nearly extinct. 1834Southey in Corr. C. Bowles (1881) 313 Poor Newton seems to have sat down to them as..a sorry spin-text to his sermon at the latter end of the week. 1889Antiquary Nov. 194 Barrow was of the obsolete family of the Spintexts. |