spin-textn.

Forms: Also spintext.

Etymology: < spin v. + text n.¹, originally as a suggestive surname.

A clergyman or parson, esp. one who preaches long or weak sermons.

ΘΚΠ

society > faith > church government > member of the clergy > preacher > [noun] > long-winded

spin-text1693

1693 W. Congreve Old Batchelour i. i. 3 Talks of sending for Mr. Spintext to keep me Company... Spintext! Oh the Fanatick one-ey'd Parson!

a1704 T. Brown Lett. from Dead (new ed.) in Wks. (1707) II. ii. 146 Representing Mr. Spin-Text the Preacher, or Mr. Love-Lady the Chaplain, after a rediculous manner.

1712 Ward Young Libertine's Answ. in Wks. III. ii. 33 Imploying some superannuated Spintext, to rattle off your poor Nephew.

1788 V. Knox Winter Evenings I. iii. ii. 243 The race of formal spintexts and solemn saygraces is nearly extinct.

1834 R. Southey Let. in Corr. R. Southey with 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.

1889 Antiquary Nov. 194 Barrow was of the obsolete family of the Spintexts.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online December 2020).

单词	spin-text
释义	spin-textn. Forms: Also spintext. Etymology: < spin v. + text n.¹, originally as a suggestive surname. A clergyman or parson, esp. one who preaches long or weak sermons. ΘΚΠ society > faith > church government > member of the clergy > preacher > [noun] > long-winded spin-text1693 1693 W. Congreve Old Batchelour i. i. 3 Talks of sending for Mr. Spintext to keep me Company... Spintext! Oh the Fanatick one-ey'd Parson! a1704 T. Brown Lett. from Dead (new ed.) in Wks. (1707) II. ii. 146 Representing Mr. Spin-Text the Preacher, or Mr. Love-Lady the Chaplain, after a rediculous manner. 1712 Ward Young Libertine's Answ. in Wks. III. ii. 33 Imploying some superannuated Spintext, to rattle off your poor Nephew. 1788 V. Knox Winter Evenings I. iii. ii. 243 The race of formal spintexts and solemn saygraces is nearly extinct. 1834 R. Southey Let. in Corr. R. Southey with 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. 1889 Antiquary Nov. 194 Barrow was of the obsolete family of the Spintexts. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.1693
随便看	fetching fetching of boards fetching up fetchinglier fetchingliest fetchingly fetchlife fetchlight fetchlike fetchup fetchwater fete feted fetes fetherfooted fethok fethre fetial fetial law fetiales fetials fetich fetiches fetichism fetichisms