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Mess-John
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English
Etymology
From en mess mass.
Noun
en obsolete A domestic chaplain.
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.