Farmer’s Slang & Its Analogues. 1890–1909, rev. 2022.
Owned
verb. (obsolete ecclesiastical).—See quot.
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1853. DEAN CONYBEARE, Essay on Church Parties, in Edinburgh Review, Oct., 295 note. A preacher is said in this phraseology to be OWNED when he makes many converts and his converts are called his ‘seals.’
