parson
noun
a member of the clergy, especially a Protestant minister; pastor; rector.
parsonic
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a word derived from
parson.
Example Sentences
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The case which had defied lay treatment had yielded to the parsonic process of cure; and Zack, the rebellious, was tamed at last into spending his evenings in decorous dullness at home!
From Hide and Seek by Wilkie Collins
The question was no longer a struggle between the layman and the parson external to him; it was a struggle with his own inner parson, his parsonic nature.
From Selected Essays by H. J. Stenning
Yet possibly he might, as his earliest predilections, we were told, were for the pulpit, and all have, more or less, of the parsonic element in them.
From Christopher Crayon's Recollections The Life and Times of the late James Ewing Ritchie as told by himself by J. Ewing (James Ewing) Ritchie
That and the parsonic pickings will keep you in clover.
From Golden Face A Tale of the Wild West by Bertram Mitford
Hignett nobly restrained himself from making a too parsonic parson, yet kept enough of the distinctive flavour to excite a passionate anti-clerical behind me into clamorously derisive laughter; a very good piece of work.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, August 18th, 1920 by Various
