Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Same as
parsonic .
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- adjective
parsonic
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Examples
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'I canvass poor men accustomed to be paid for their votes, and who get nothing from me but what the baron would call a parsonical exhortation.
Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868
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'I canvass poor men accustomed to be paid for their votes, and who get nothing from me but what the baron would call a parsonical exhortation.
Beauchamp's Career — Complete George Meredith 1868
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'I canvass poor men accustomed to be paid for their votes, and who get nothing from me but what the baron would call a parsonical exhortation.
Beauchamp's Career — Volume 2 George Meredith 1868
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We get to see exhibition catalogues, the cover and sample pages of Blast! including the Bless! pages, which are curiously parsonical in their blessings of our seafarers.
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His plump hands are linked across his shirt-front in parsonical tranquillity.
The mission song Le Carre, John, 1931- 2006
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His plump hands are linked across his shirt-front in parsonical tranquillity.
the mission song Le Carre, John, 1931- 2006
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A parsonical man in a Bible-black homburg has arrived by helicopter.
Absolute Friends Le Carre, John, 1931- 2003
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He gave Burden a parsonical look and said gravely, 'I would lay down my life for Mr Knighton.'
The Speaker Of Mandarin Rendell, Ruth, 1930- 1983
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He was an oldish man with a failing memory, and once or twice during his discourse it became apparent that he had confused Ramillies with some other warrior, but his parsonical intonation robbed most of his words of any meaning whatsoever and fortunately embarrassment was thus avoided.
The Fashion in Shrouds Allingham, Margery, 1904-1966 1931
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We were staying with an English friend of mine -- a parson, though the least parsonical of men -- who had a pleasant little house in a Druze village of Mount Lebanon, and nothing to do but watch, and do his utmost to restrain, the antics of a very wealthy and eccentric lady missionary.
Oriental Encounters Palestine and Syria, 1894-6 Marmaduke William Pickthall 1905
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