Chop Churches (Grose 1811 Dictionary)

Chop Churches

Simoniacal dealers in livings, or other ecclesiastical preferments.

Definition taken from The 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, originally by Francis Grose.

To Chop and Change * Chopping

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Nathan Bailey's 1736 Dictionary of canting and thieving slang

John S. Farmer's collection of canting songs and slang rhymes

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