Mas John

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Mas John (plural Mas Johns)

  1. (obsolete, humorous) A Scottish Presbyterian minister, as opposed to an Anglican or Catholic clergyman. [17th–19th c.]
    • 1672, Andrew Marvell, Gregory, father-Greybeard, with his vizard off:
      In […] Scotland there were I know not how many Mas Johns restored in one day to the work of their Ministry.
    • 1790, Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France, Oxford, published 2009, page 13:
      I should only stipulate that these new Mess-Johns in robes and coronets should keep some sort of bounds in the democratic and levelling principles which are expected from their titled pulpits.
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