Also -tenancy. [f. next: see -CY. Cf. med.L. locumtenentia.] The position of being a locum tenens.
1844. G. S. Faber, Eight Dissert. (1845), II. 343. It is not very probable that St. John … would have employed the … word Antichristus, in the sense of Locum-Tenancy or Usurpation of the character of Christ.
1881. Church Bells, 19 Feb., 193, Advt. Curacy, or Locum Tenency, wanted by a priest.
1893. ‘G. Travers,’ Mona Maclean, I. 268. To look out for a practice, or a locum-tenency.
1896. Daily News, 18 Dec., 5/2. [He] will take the locum-tenency of Berkeley Chapel, Mayfair, for at least a year.
