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Kirkman   Listen
noun
Kirkman  n.  (pl. kirkmen)  
1.
A clergyman or officer in a kirk. (Scot.)
2.
A member of the Church of Scotland, as distinguished from a member of another communion. (Scot.)





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"Kirkman" Quotes from Famous Books



... Unfortunate Lady;" Mason's "Elegy on the Death of the Beautiful Countess of Coventry," and many smaller poems on similar subjects. I had then been attended two years by various masters. Mr. Edmund Broadrip taught me music, my father having presented me with one of Kirkman's finest harpsichords, as an incitement to emulation. Even there my natural bent of mind evinced itself. The only melody which pleased me was that of the mournful and touching kind. Two of my earliest favourites ...
— Beaux and Belles of England • Mary Robinson
... priest, pastor, parson, churchman, preacher, rector, curate, dominie, vicar, missionary, evangelist, patriarch, dean, bishop, chaplain, cleric, deacon, presbyter, imparsonee, kirkman, ...
— Putnam's Word Book • Louis A. Flemming
... an extension of the well-known problem of the "Fifteen Schoolgirls," by Kirkman. The original conditions were simply that fifteen girls walked out on seven days in triplets without any girl ever walking twice in a triplet with another girl. Attempts at a general solution of this puzzle had exercised ...
— Amusements in Mathematics • Henry Ernest Dudeney


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