subs. phr. (old).—A dissenting meeting-house; SCHISM-MONGER = a dissenting parson (GROSE): amongst Catholics any Protestant church or chapel.
1840. HALIBURTON (‘Sam Slick’), The Clockmaker, 3 S., iv. Stickin’ a subscription paper into a very strait-laced man, even for building a SCHISM-SHOP for his own folks, is like stickin’ a needle behind an ox’s ear, it kills him dead on the spot.
1852. C. W. SHIRLEY BROOKS, Miss Violet and Her ‘Offers,’ vi. “The tenants-at-will who vote for church candidates——” “By the tenants-at-won’t, who go in for the SCHISM-SHOP”—dashed in the smart barrister.
