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Webster 1913 Edition


Pluralist

Plu′ral-ist

,
Noun.
(Eccl.)
A clerk or clergyman who holds more than one ecclesiastical benefice.
[Eng.]
Of the parochial clergy, a large proportion were
pluralists
.
Macaulay.

Webster 1828 Edition


Pluralist

PLU'RALIST

,
Noun.
A clerk or clergyman who holds more ecclesiastical benefices than one, with cure of souls.