noun
definition
The landlord of a public house.
definition
A tax collector in Ancient Rome.
Examples of publican in a Sentence
Zacchaeus the publican and the grateful Samaritan leper further illustrate this characteristic. Writing as he does for Gentile believers he omits many details which from their strongly Jewish cast might be unintelligible or uninteresting.
In 1809 the John Brown who owned the brick works also became the publican at the Shoulder of Mutton.
I ask of you, my dear readers, how much did the publican realize from the company that night by selling drink?
They included the publican, William Newton, and neighbors Arthur and Hannah Maughan.
Rivalry between ex-service man turned publican and another crooked landlord in beer war.
A poor publican was drowned in tears, who constantly attends the word of grace, on which all his hopes depend.
Firstly, you could contact a friendly local publican who already holds a license.
I'm very pleased, " the former publican said.
And, the excommunicate being but as a publican and a heathen, heathen being lawfully permitted to come to hear the word in church assemblyes; wee acknowledg therfore the like liberty of hearing the word, may be permitted to persons excommunicate, that is permitted unto heathen.
This freedom from the trammels of convention appears yet again when he claims as a new disciple a publican, a man whose calling as a tax-gatherer for the Roman government made him odious to every patriotic Jew.
Another smith tried to enter the doorway, pressing against the publican with his chest.
The publican, taking advantage of the increased crowd, dropped behind and returned to his tavern.
The publican was fighting one of the smiths at the door, and when the workmen came out the smith, wrenching himself free from the tavern keeper, fell face downward on the pavement.
The tall lad, standing in the porch, turned his bleared eyes from the publican to the smith and back again as if considering whom he ought to fight now.
As if this action had some mysterious and menacing significance, the workmen surrounding the publican paused in indecision.
Robbery is not permitted to anybody now a days! shouted the publican, picking up his cap.
Come along then! the publican and the tall young fellow repeated one after the other, and they moved up the street together.
The offender is only treated as a heathen and publican when the purity and safety of the church demand it.
These men, who under the leadership of the tall lad were drinking in the dramshop that morning, had brought the publican some skins from the factory and for this had had drink served them.