[f. FROCK sb.] trans. To provide with or dress in a frock; lit. and fig. b. To invest (a person) with priestly office or privilege. Cf. UNFROCK v.
1828. W. S. Landor, Wks. (1846), I. 535/2. A gentleman whom perhaps nothing but the hope of gratifying his amiable passions had cowled and frocked.
1860. All Year Round, No. 54. 79/1. I have seen baby London short-coated, and frocked, and breeched, and jacketed, and bloused, and long-tail-coated.
1878. Browning, Poets Croisic, xcv.
| I ’ll copy fair and femininely frock, | |
| Your poem masculine that courts La Rocque! |
1896. A. M. Fairbairn, Cardinal Manning and Catholic Revival, in Contemporary Review, LXIX. March, 315. If he thought of the episcopate as the sine quâ non of unity, the State mocked his faith by co-operating with a schismatical body in founding a Jerusalem bishopric and frocking its new bishop.
