locum-tenency
(ˌləʊkəmˈtiːnənsɪ)
Also -tenancy.
[f. next: see -cy. Cf. med.L. locumtenentia.]
The position of being a locum tenens.
| 1844 G. S. Faber Eight Dissert. (1845) II. 343 It is not very probable that St. John..would have employed the..word Antichristus, in the sense of Locum-Tenancy or Usurpation of the character of Christ. 1881 Church Bells 19 Feb. 193 Advt. Curacy, or Locum Tenency, wanted by a priest. 1893 G. Travers Mona Maclean I. 268 To look out for a practice, or a locum-tenency. 1896 Daily News 18 Dec. 5/2 [He] will take the locum-tenency of Berkeley Chapel, Mayfair, for at least a year. |