locum tenens

How to use locum tenens in a sentence

• If there was no son capable, the state put in a locum tenens, but granted one-third to the wife to maintain herself and children.

  Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 | Various

• Stibbler, stib′lėr, n. one who cuts the handfuls left by the reaper: a clerical locum tenens.

  Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) | Various

• A young clergyman, recently come from England as locum tenens to an absent vicar, was then at Manly Beach with his wife.

  Six Letters From the Colonies | Robert Seaton

• A locum tenens had previously received two guineas a week, now he received eight, nine, or even twelve.

  The Annual Register 1914 | Anonymous

• Sir W. Robertson thereupon called me in to act as locum tenens.

  Experiences of a Dug-out, 1914-1918 | Sir Stanley Maude