As he was the presentee of the king, the bishop had special inducement to be lenient.
Bishop Grostete refused a presentee whom he described as "a boy still in his Ovid.
Whatever be the event, first of all the presentee cannot complain, if he is rejected only for proved insufficiency.
In both cases, the rights of the patron and of the presentee were challenged peremptorily; that is to say, in both cases, parishioners objected to the presentee without reason shown.
Admission by licence is the correct course; but by the desire of the presentee himself institution is sometimes granted.
The bishop admits a presentee by formal institution in the case of a rectory or vicarage (the presentee kneeling before him), and by licence in the case of a perpetual curacy.
But if the judge finds that such fact does exist, the archbishop is to decide whether the presentee is actually in consequence unfit to serve the benefice, and adjudge whether admission ought under the circumstances to be refused.
If a bishop refuses to admit a presentee on a ground specified in sect.
If the bishop refuses to admit the presentee of a clerical patron and the refusal is upheld by the court, the patron has the same right of further presentation as if he were a lay patron.
Patrons are described as the 'trustees of the supreme magistrate, beautifully and devoutly appointed to submit the presentee to the presbytery.
The General Assembly ordered the presbytery of Strathbogie not to take on trials a certain presentee who had been vetoed.
He was promised a bill that would justify a Presbytery in rejecting a presentee on even the most frivolous objection--as red hair or a black skin, for instance.
Even under the law of patronage there was a provision by which the presentee must have a 'call' from the people; but it had never been settled what this call meant, and in practice it had degenerated into a mere form.
It made it the law of the church that if a majority of male heads of families, being communicants, objected to the settlement of a presentee as their minister, the presbytery were not to take him on trial for ordination.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "presentee" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
