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Definition of "vestryman" []

  • A man who is a member of a vestry. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "vestryman" in a sentence
  • "So one could be a late 18th Century, lifelong Anglican, indeed, a vestryman in the Church (as Jefferson was), consider oneself a “Christian” (as Jefferson did) and reject every single one of those tenets."
  • "He also served as a vestryman for the Trinity Church in New York City."
  • "We have a Vestry in our borough, and can vote for a vestryman — might even BE a vestryman, mayhap, if we were inspired by a lofty and noble ambition."