sextonry
English
Etymology
sexton + -ry
Noun
sextonry (plural sextonries)
- (obsolete) The office of sexton.
- 1523–1525, John Bourchier, Froissart's Chronicles:
- He […] retayned to hymselfe but a small lyueng, and that was the sextenry of our lady churche in Renes.
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References
- sextonry in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913