To formally assume a new ecclesiastical or official post by reading a prescribed text or declaration in public.
To officially start a new job as a Church of England vicar by reading a special text in church.
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(Church of England) To formally take up a new ecclesiastical position by publicly reading a prescribed doctrinal text.
"The new rector read himself in at the Sunday morning service, marking the official start of his ministry."
Highly specific to the Church of England tradition. When a new rector or vicar takes up a living, they formally 'read themselves in' by publicly reading the Thirty-Nine Articles of Religion. Rarely used outside Anglican ecclesiastical contexts.
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