Usage examples (26)

• Irishman is a knowing scoundrel, the publican is a trifle more knowledgable than the customer, whose brains are besodden.
• It was a wonder of his grace that he would call a publican, from the receipt of custom, to be his disciple and follower, v. 27.
• Their publican is the druggist, where they buy opium for themselves and Godfrey's cordial, a preparation from laudanum, for their children.
• On more than one occasion he seemed to refer to a mysterious "publican".