| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Expression | 1. A poor, illiterate priest. --Shak.[Websters]. | |
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Common Expressions: HEDGE PRIEST
| Expressions | Definition | ||
| Hedge priest | A poor, illiterate priest. --Shak. Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary. | ||
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Specialty Expressions: HEDGE PRIEST
| Expressions | Domain | Definition | |
| Hedge priest | Literature | 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 (a clandestine one), etc. Shakespeare uses the phrase, "hedge-born swain" as the very opposite of "gentle blood." (1 Henry VI., iv. 1.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. | |
| Hedge priest | Slang in 1811 | HEDGE PRIEST. An illiterate unbeneficial curate, a patrico. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. | |
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