sextonry

noun

sextonry

noun

Etymology From sexton + -ry.

1

Obsolete The office of sexton.

  • He[…]retayned to hymselfe but a small lyueng, and that was the sextenry of our lady churche in Renes.1523–1525, John Bourchier, Froissart's Chronicles:

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