Portionist: Definition and part of speech

Portionist

  1. n. One of the incumbents of a benefice which has two or more rectors or vicars.
  2. n. A scholar at Merton College, Oxford, who has a certain academical allowance or portion; — corrupted into postmaster.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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