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Mas John
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en Mess John
Noun
en obsolete jocular A Scottish Presbyterian minister, as opposed to an Anglican or Catholic clergyman. 17th–19th c.
en 1672 w: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.
en 1790 w:Edmund Burke Reflections on the Revolution in France 13 Oxford 2009 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.