Definition of Kirkman

1. n. A clergyman or officer in a kirk.

Definition of Kirkman

1. Noun. (Scotland) A clergyman or officer in a kirk. ¹

2. Noun. (Scotland) A member of the Church of Scotland. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Kirkman

1. a member of a church [n KIRKMEN]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Kirkman

kirikiti
kirimon
kirimons
kiriru moji
kirk
kirk-town
kirk-towns
kirkbuzzer
kirkbuzzers
kirked
kirkiite
kirking
kirkings
kirkland warbler
kirkmaister
kirkman (current term)
kirkmen
kirks
kirkton
kirktons
kirkward
kirkyard
kirkyards
kirmess
kirmesses
kirn
kirned
kirner deformity
kirning
kirns

Literary usage of Kirkman

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Lectures on Ten British Mathematicians of the Nineteenth Century by Alexander Macfarlane (1916)
"He was the son of John kirkman, a dealer in cotton and cotton waste; he had several ... But the father was obdurate; young kirkman was removed from school, ..."

2. Second Series of Bibliographical Collections and Notes on Early English by William Carew Hazlitt (1882)
"London, Printed for Francis kirkman, and are to be sold at his Shop over against the Custome-House in ... London, Printed for Fran: kirkman ; . . 1671. 8°. ..."

3. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the High Court of Chancery: During by William Brown, Edward Thurlow Thurlow, Alexander Wedderburn Rosslyn, Great Britain Court of Chancery, Robert Belt (1820)
"And it was provided and agreed between the parties, that, in case the defendant should survive the said John kirkman, and should be desirous to continue the ..."

4. Reports of Cases Heard and Determined by the Lord Chancellor, and the Court by John Peter De Gex, Steuart Macnaghten, Alexander Gordon, Great Britain Court of Chancery, Jonathan Cogswell Perkins (1873)
"issue of four deceased children, namely, the issue of Joseph Kirk- man, Abraham kirkman, Harriett Bolger, and Frances Johnson, her surviving. ..."

5. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Courts of Exchequer and by Great Britain Court of Exchequer, Roger Meeson, William Newland Welsby, John Innes Clark Hare, Great Britain Court of Exchequer Chamber, Horace Binney Wallace (1837)
"kirkman and Another, Executors of JOSEPH kirkman, deceased. XHE declaration stated, that on the 29th of October, 1814, the plaintiff was about to leave ..."

6. The Practice and Evidence in Cases of Divorce and Other Matrimonial Causes by Richard Thomas Tidswell, Ralph Daniel Makinson Littler (1860)
"283; kirkman v. kirkman, 1 Hagg. 409 ... If the safety be endangered by violent and disorderly affections of the mind, it is the same in its effects as if ..."

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