| 释义 |
† mass-jobbing, a. Obs. rare.
[‹ mass n.1 + job v.2 + -ing suffix2. Compare later jobbing adj.]
Of a priest: that conducts mass as a perfunctory task or obligation. Cf. jobbing adj. 1.
1679W. Bedloe Narr. Horrid Popish Plot 1 There is not a more malicious sort of vermine in the World than the Jesuits and other Factors for Rome (for let me tell you the Benedictines and rest of the Orders; nay, the dullest Mass-jobbing Seculars, are not at all behind hand with the former, in will to commit Roguery). |
