subs. phr. (Scots’).—A disqualified candidate for holy orders: spec. a sucking-parson, who, breaking down at his first sermon, never attempts another.
1815. SCOTT, Guy Mannering, ii. But, alas … he became totally incapable of proceeding in his intended discourse—gasped, grinned, hideously rolled his eyes till the congregation thought them flying out of his head—shut the Bible—stumbled down the pulpit-stairs, trampling upon the old women who generally take their station there—and was ever after designated a STICKIT-MINISTER.
1893. S. R. CROCKETT, The Stickit Minister [Title].
