<span class="searchmatch">Fleet</span> <span class="searchmatch">parson</span> (plural <span class="searchmatch">Fleet</span> <span class="searchmatch">parsons</span>) (UK, historical) A clergyman based in or near the <span class="searchmatch">Fleet</span> Prison, who performed <span class="searchmatch">Fleet</span> marriages (a kind of clandestine...
<span class="searchmatch">Fleet</span> <span class="searchmatch">parsons</span> plural of <span class="searchmatch">Fleet</span> <span class="searchmatch">parson</span>...
historical) An irregular or clandestine marriage taking place in Fleet Prison, London, England, before the Marriage Act came into force in 1754. <span class="searchmatch">Fleet</span> <span class="searchmatch">parson</span>...
A <span class="searchmatch">parson</span> benyfyced But nothynge well advysed. <span class="searchmatch">Fleet</span> <span class="searchmatch">parson</span> hedge <span class="searchmatch">parson</span> parsonage <span class="searchmatch">parson</span> bird parsondom <span class="searchmatch">Parson</span> Drove <span class="searchmatch">parson</span>-in-the-pulpit <span class="searchmatch">Parson</span> Russell...
<span class="searchmatch">Parsons</span>, “First Sign of Trouble”: There was no relent, my dear, as we pulled each other in. 2016, Colson Whitehead, The Underground Railroad, <span class="searchmatch">Fleet</span> (2017)...
Thesaurus:comfort, Thesaurus:enliven 1700, [John] Dryden, “The Character of a Good <span class="searchmatch">Parson</span>; Imitated from Chaucer, and Inlarg’d”, in Fables Ancient and Modern; […]...
Printed by B[enjamin] Motte, and C. Bathurst, at the Middle Temple-Gate in <span class="searchmatch">Fleet</span>-street, →OCLC, page 61: Lady Anſw[erall]. Colonel, ſome Ladies of your Acquaintance...
Churchill, […], 1704, →OCLC, page 4: [T]he Appropriator was the incumbent <span class="searchmatch">Parſon</span>, and had the Cure of the Souls of the Pariſhioners, and that upon the Preſentation...
straddling, especially in crossing a creek. a. 1917, Roger Martin, “The <span class="searchmatch">Parson</span> Goes A-Fishing”, Outing, W. B. Holland, volume LXIX, page 216: There is...
squire gave him a good curse at his departure; and then turning to the <span class="searchmatch">parson</span>, he cried out, "I smoke it: I smoke it. Tom is certainly the father of this...