Por"tion*ist (?), n.

1.

A scholar at Merton College, Oxford, who has a certain academical allowance or portion; -- corrupted into postmaster.

Shipley.

2. Eccl.

One of the incumbents of a benefice which has two or more rectors or vicars.

 

© Webster 1913.

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