A chop-church, or church-chopper, was a parson who made a practice of exchanging ecclesiastical benefices and other terrenal favors. The term is used in an ancient statute as a lawful trade, or occupation. An example, where the spelling is `chopchyrche`, occurs as the occupation of John Charles of Bishop`s Milford, Wiltshire, as a defendant in ......
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• (n.) An exchanger or an exchange of benefices.
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Chop'church` noun [ See
Chop to barter.]
(Old Eng. Law) An exchanger or an exchange of benefices. [ Cant]
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