Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Sextonship.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete Sextonship.
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- noun obsolete The office of
sexton .
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Those who heard him preach in his little church in the Strand hung upon his persuasive lips with eager delight, and it was said by a contemporary, that even the windows and sextonry of his small chapel were crowded as if bees had swarmed to his mellifluous discourse.
Good Thoughts in Bad Times and Other Papers. 1608-1661 1863
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