Mas John
English
Alternative forms
- Mess John
Noun
Mas John (plural Mas Johns)
- (obsolete, humorous) A Scottish Presbyterian minister, as opposed to an Anglican or Catholic clergyman. [17th–19th c.]
- 1672, Andrew Marvell, Gregory, father-Greybeard, with his vizard off:
- In […] Scotland there were I know not how many Mas Johns restored in one day to the work of their Ministry.
- 1790, Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France, Oxford 2009, p. 13:
- I should only stipulate that these new Mess-Johns in robes and coronets should keep some sort of bounds in the democratic and levelling principles which are expected from their titled pulpits.
- 1672, Andrew Marvell, Gregory, father-Greybeard, with his vizard off: