Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The system of the government of parishes by vestries.
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Examples
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English Schools, English vestrydom, English provincialism ” all alike stand in the most urgent need of reform; but with all alike the Middle Class is serenely content.
Matthew Arnold Russell, G W E 1904
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