read oneself in

English

Verb

read oneself in (third-person singular simple present reads oneself in, present participle reading oneself in, simple past and past participle read oneself in)

1. (ecclesiastical, Anglicanism, dated, idiomatic) To read aloud the Thirty-nine Articles and the Declaration of Assent; required of a clergyman of the Church of England when he first officiates in a new benefice.
   • 1920, Sabine Baring-Gould, Mehalah: a story of the salt marshes, Chapter 11:

     Parson Tyll was a curate of one parish across the Strood and of the two on the island. The rector was non-resident, on the plea of the unsalubrity of the spot. He had held the rectory of one parish and the vicarage of the other thirty years, and during that period had visited his cures twice, once to read himself in, and on the other occasion to exact some tithes denied him.

References

• “read”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.