English Explanatory Dictionary

chopchurch

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. An exchanger of benefices; one of a class of secular priests who trafficked in ecclesiastical benefices.

Word forms

chopchurch chopchurches

Etymology

From chop + church. See chop (“to barter”).

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