synodsman

Despite deep differences, Don Dunstan the young Labor turk and one-time Anglican synodsman developed a friendship like that with

At the Sir Thomas Playford Annual Lecture 2003

This tendency indeed will be partially counterworked by approximations which from time to time will by silent consent be made of the written word to the spoken; here and there a letter dropped in speech will be dropped also in writing, as the ‘s’ in so many French words, where its absence is marked by a circumflex; a new shape, contracted or briefer, which a word has taken on the lips of men, will find its representation in their writing; as ‘chirurgeon’ will not merely be pronounced, but also spelt, ‘surgeon’, and ‘synodsman’

English Past and Present Richard Chenevix Trench 1846