Irish. Also sogarth, seggart. [ad. Ir. sagart, OIr. sacart, -ard, ad. L. sacerdōs: see SACERDOTAL a.] A priest.
1839. Carleton, Fardorougha, xvii. 390. What if you axe to see the Bodagh’s son, the young sogarth.
1851. Borrow, Lavengro, I. x. 134. To send me to school, to learn Greek letters, that I might be made a saggart of.
1898. R. Buchanan, Father Anthony, xviii. (1900), 97/1. Can’t the soggarth visit a dying man without being followed and spied upon by the likes of you?
