subs. (common).—See quots., SQUISHOP, and PORTMANTEAU-WORD. Whence SQUARSONAGE = a parsonage.
1886. A. LANG, The Mark of Cain, ix. He held the sacrosanct position of a SQUARSON, being at once Squire and Parson of the parish of Little Wentley. Ibid. She left the gray old SQUARSONAGE, and went to town.
1888. Living Church, 25 Aug. The … Rev. W. H. Hoare, of Oakfield, Sussex … was the original of the well-known expression, invented by Bishop Wilberforce, SQUARSON, by which he meant a landed proprietor in holy orders.
