subs. (old).—A boon companion; a ‘spreester.’ Cf., CORINTHIAN.
1596. SHAKESPEARE, Merry Wives of Windsor, iv. 5. Art thou there? it is thine host, thine EPHESIAN, calls.
1598. SHAKESPEARE, 2 Henry IV., ii. 2. P. H. What company? Page. EPHESIANS, my lord, of the old church.
