revd

I clicked on a link and apparently according to a Canadian revd, priest, someone like that it means "God, and my duty".

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That revd gentleman, overpowered by the heat of the day and the fervour of his eloquence, had removed his hat and was wiping away the perspiration from his rubicund face, when the last words of the virago were spoken, and ere he could avert the infliction by any means, she inverted the little kit on his head, driving the vessel down with her fist.

Ralph Rashleigh 2004

On this emergency one of the most active members of the magistracy that formed the governing committee of the institution was sent for, and the revd gentleman, who was very short and very fat, came bustling in, much out of breath with his haste.

Ralph Rashleigh 2004

The revd. gentleman met with some remonstrances from his friends, for indulging so splenetic a temper, when he was writing in the cause of religion, as to wish any man accursed.

The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland Cibber, Theophilus, 1703-1758 1753

THOMAS TICKELL, Esq. This Gentleman, well known, to the world by the friendship and intimacy which subsisted between him and Mr. Addison, was the son of the revd.

The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland Cibber, Theophilus, 1703-1758 1753

It was in the second year of Mr. Thomson's attendance upon this school of divinity, whose professor at that time was the revd. and learned Mr. William Hamilton, a person whom he always mentioned with respect, that our author was appointed by the professor to write a discourse on the Power of the Supreme Being.

The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland Cibber, Theophilus, 1703-1758 1753

Mr. Philips, who early distinguished himself in revolution principles, was concerned with Dr. Boulter, afterwards archbishop of Armagh, the right honourable Richard West, Esq; lord chancellor of Ireland; the revd.

The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland Cibber, Theophilus, 1703-1758 1753

The celebrated author of the Fair Circassian, was son of the revd.

The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland Cibber, Theophilus, 1703-1758 1753

This gentleman had been his acquaintance when very young, and proved to be Dr. Gustard, the son of a revd. minister in the city of Edinburgh.

The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland Cibber, Theophilus, 1703-1758 1753

His grammatical learning he received chiefly under the revd.

The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland Cibber, Theophilus, 1703-1758 1753