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Parson

,—formerly a respectable character, practising the mild precepts of the Christian religion, of which class a few remain. At present it denotes an animal visiting the university, resigning the right of reasoning, considering the Defender of our faith at least as infallible as the Romish Bishop, and finally beholding with enraptured eye the lawn sleeves and crosier of his Holiness the Archbishop of Canterbury.

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Entry taken from A Political Dictionary, by Charles Pigott, 1795.

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Parson