read oneself in

English

Verb

read oneself in

  1. (ecclesiastical) To read about the Thirty-nine Articles and the Declaration of Assent; required of a clergyman of the Church of England when he first officiates in a new benefice.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for read oneself in in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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