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Chop´church`


n. 1. (Old Eng. Law) An exchanger or an exchange of benefices.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.
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Likewise, Crop, an old term of reference to the Roundhead close tonsures, was reapplied to Presbyterians, while Chop Churches (simoniacal dealers in livings, or other ecclesiastical prefements) knew no sectarian bounds.