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PENTECOSTALS Definition & Legal Meaning

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In ecclesiastical law. Pious oblations made at the feast of Pentecost by parishioners to their priests, and sometimes by inferior churches or parishes to the principal mother churches. They are also called “Whitsun farthings.” Wharton.

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