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glebe

NOUN
  1. plot of land belonging to an English parish church or an ecclesiastical office

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  • Security patrols and closed-circuit television cameras are being spruiked as a possible solution to crime in Glebe after a spate of robberies and vandalism attacks.
  • Anglicanism enjoyed its dominant position in the plantation colonies, endowed with glebe lands, housed in parish churches, and staffed with a university-educated clergy.
  • Nothing, for instance, can be more disgraceful to human nature than the state of praedial slavery, or serfs attached to the glebe, when Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah
  • Because their burgers areflame-broiled,you dingleberry, not cooked on a griddle like at McDonalds! Me and J.D. Salinger at Burger King
  • The dingleberry on Obama's ass is bigger than your brain. Should School Kids Listen to a Speech By President Obama?
  • Glebe House is a substantial and attractive Georgian house built over a full-sized basement with three extensions.
  • He pointed out that by letting off most of the glebe land and pretermitting David's "pocket-money" he might secure a young and energetic Welsh-speaking curate, the remainder of whose living-wage would -- he felt sure -- be found out of the diocesan funds of St. David's bishopric. Mrs. Warren's Daughter A Story of the Woman's Movement
  • In the Latin the idea of servitude implies that of subordination of man to things; and when later feudal law declared the serf attached to the glebe, it only periphrased the literal meaning of the word servus. [ System of Economical Contradictions: or, the Philosophy of Misery
  • The parish clergy, dependent on tithes, fees, and if they were lucky a little glebe land, paid almost half the total raised, yet had little say in its allocation within each diocese.
  • An exchange of livings had been arranged with an acquaintance who was incumbent of a church in the south of London, and as soon as possible the couple removed thither, abandoning their pretty country home, with trees and shrubs and glebe, for a narrow, dusty house in a long, straight street, and their fine peal of bells for the wretchedest one-tongued clangour that ever tortured mortal ears. Life's Little Ironies
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