{Stickit minister}, a candidate for the clerical office who fails, disqualified by incompetency or immorality. [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English. 2000.
stickit minister — noun (Scot) A licentiate who never gets a pastoral charge • • • Main Entry: ↑stick … Useful english dictionary
Stickit minister — A Stickit minister is a term of obloquy in Scotland, for a candidate for holy orders who has failed to pass the necessary examination, or to give satisfaction before whom he preached the probationary sermon. Scottish Gaelic has a direct… … Wikipedia
Stickit — Stick it, a. Stuck; spoiled in making. [Scot.] [1913 Webster] {Stickit minister}, a candidate for the clerical office who fails, disqualified by incompetency or immorality. [1913 Webster] … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
stickit — ˈstikə̇t adjective Etymology: from Scots past participle of stick (V), from Middle English stikkyd 1. Scotland : imperfect, unfinished a stickit job … Useful english dictionary
Samuel Rutherford Crockett — (September 24, 1860 April 16, 1914), was a Scottish novelist, born at Duchrae, Galloway, the son of a Galloway farmer.He was brought up on a Galloway farm, and graduated from Edinburgh University in 1879. After some years of travel he became in… … Wikipedia
Crockett, Samuel Rutherford — ▪ Scottish writer original name Samuel Crockett born Sept. 24, 1859, Little Duchrae, near New Galloway, Kirkcudbrightshire, Scot. died April 16, 1914, Tarascon, near Avignon, Fr. Scottish novelist and a leader of the Kailyard (Kailyard… … Universalium
CROCKETT, SAMUEL RUTHERFORD — novelist, born near New Galloway, Kirkcudbright; bred for the Church, and for some time Free Church minister at Penicuik, Midlothian, a charge he resigned in 1895, having previously published a volume of sketches entitled The Stickit Minister … The Nuttall Encyclopaedia
Крокет Сэмюэль — (Samuel Rutherford Crockett) выдающийся шотландский романист. Род. в 1860 г. Был пастором, но скоро отказался от этой должности. Первая его книга (собрание стихов) была напечатана в 1886 г. В 1893 г. вышел первый сборник его рассказов: The… … Энциклопедический словарь Ф.А. Брокгауза и И.А. Ефрона
Крокет, Сэмюэль — Сэмюэль Крокет (англ. Samuel Rutherford Crockett; … Википедия
Крокет С. — Сэмюэль Крокет (Samuel Rutherford Crockett; 1860 ) шотландский романист. Был пастором, но скоро отказался от этой должности. Первая его книга (собрание стихов) была напечатана в 1886. В 1893 вышел первый сборник его рассказов: «The Stickit… … Википедия
