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hedge-priest - ShakespearesWords.com
hedge-priest (n.) [contemptuous] roadside cleric, uneducated priest . www.shakespeareswords.com
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hedge priest - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
From hedge (“third-rate”) + priest. To imply such a priest "plying one's trade under a hedge." Compare hedge alehouse, hedge whore. en.wiktionary.org
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HEDGE-PRIEST Definition & Meaning - Merriam-Webster
The meaning of HEDGE-PRIEST is an itinerant usually uneducated priest. www.merriam-webster.com
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hedge-priest
ˈhedge-priest [See hedge n. 8 a.] An illiterate or uneducated priest of inferior status. (contemptuous.)1550 J. Coke Eng. & Fr. Heralds §167 (1877) 107 In Fraunce..the most parte of your speritual men..be symple persons, hedge priestes not lerned. a 1568 R. Ascham Scholem. ii. (Arb.) 136 Therefore d... Oxford English Dictionary
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hedge-priest, n. meanings, etymology and more
The earliest known use of the noun hedge-priest is in the mid 1500s. OED's earliest evidence for hedge-priest is from 1550, in the writing of J. Coke. www.oed.com
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Brewer's: Hedge Priest - InfoPlease
A poor or vagabond parson. The use of hedge for vagabond, or very inferior, is common: as hedge-mustard, hedge-writer (a Grubb Street author), hedge-marriage. www.infoplease.com
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Hedges (surname)
1954), British soldier George Hedges (1952-2009), American lawyer James Hedges (born 1939), American prohibitionist Jane Hedges (born 1956), Anglican priest (surname) Hedge (disambiguation) English-language surnames wikipedia.org
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hedge-priest - definition and meaning - Wordnik
hedge-priest: A hedge-parson; specifically, in Ireland, formerly, a priest who had been admitted to orders directly from a hedge-school, without preparation ... www.wordnik.com
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Hedge Priest (Grose 1811 Dictionary) - Words from Old Books
An illiterate unbeneficed curate, a patrico. Definition taken from The 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, originally by Francis Grose. words.fromoldbooks.org
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"HEDGE PRIEST": Clergy serving without formal appointment
▸ noun: (Christianity, historical) An ignorant itinerant priest. Similar: hedge parson, priestling, patrico, hedge creeper, sinhound, hereticaster, shorling ... www.onelook.com
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The Hedge Priest - Branching Out
"An Irish parson was walking in Derbyshire one day when a heavy storm came on, and he had to take shelter under a tree. Two young gentlemen and two young ... www.valueoftrees.co.uk
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Verhaegen
bushland or hedged lot", at least the name of the noble family of Pierre-Théodore Verhaegen finds its origin in the town of Haacht (originally meaning "hedge Verhaegen (born 1966), Belgian historian and countess Pé Verhaegen (1902–1958), Belgian racing cyclist Peter Verhaegen (1800-1868), Belgian Catholic priest wikipedia.org
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hedge
▪ I. hedge, n. (hɛdʒ) Forms: 1 *hecg (dat. hegge), 3–6 hegge, 4 hegg, 5–6 hege, 6 Sc. haige, 5 hedche, 7 hedg, 4– hedge; β. 4–6 heg. [OE. *hęcg, hęgg str. fem., corresp. to EFris. hegge, MDu. hegghe, Du. hegge, heg, OHG. hegga, hecka (MHG. hegge, hecke, Ger. hecke):—OTeut. *hagjâ-; a deriv. of the s... Oxford English Dictionary
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Patrick Lavelle
He was educated at the local hedge school and St Jarlath's College, Tuam. He was nicknamed Patriot Priest Of Partry. wikipedia.org
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Michael Murphy (priest)
Michael Murphy (c. 1767 – 9 June 1798) was an Irish Roman Catholic priest and United Irishmen leader during the Irish Rebellion of 1798. He was ordained a priest in 1785 at Wexford after completing hedge school in Oulart. wikipedia.org
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