(UNDER-1 6 a.)
1636. Massinger, Bashful Lover, III. i. I am no glutton, but an under-shepherd.
1669. Penn, No Cross, XII. § 8. [The Clergy] could be but Ministers, Stewards, and Under-Shepherds.
a. 1711. Ken, Hymnotheo, Poet. Wks. 1721, III. 385. Each Pastor,… Choice Under-Shepherds carefully ordain’d.
1826. Miss Mitford, Village, Ser. III. (1863), 468. He had a pet sheep-dog, (for … he occasionally acted as under-shepherd).
1876. S. C. J. Ingham, White Cross, etc., xlvii. [The rector] had little idea of the true motive power which sustained his under-shepherd.
