Parish
['pærɪʃ]
Definition
(noun.) a local church community.
(noun.) the local subdivision of a diocese committed to one pastor.
Checker: Roland--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) That circuit of ground committed to the charge of one parson or vicar, or other minister having cure of souls therein.
(n.) The same district, constituting a civil jurisdiction, with its own officers and regulations, as respects the poor, taxes, etc.
(n.) An ecclesiastical society, usually not bounded by territorial limits, but composed of those persons who choose to unite under the charge of a particular priest, clergyman, or minister; also, loosely, the territory in which the members of a congregation live.
(n.) In Louisiana, a civil division corresponding to a county in other States.
(a.) Of or pertaining to a parish; parochial; as, a parish church; parish records; a parish priest; maintained by the parish; as, parish poor.
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Definition
n. a district under one pastor: an ecclesiastical district having officers of its own and supporting its own poor: the people of a parish.—adj. belonging or relating to a parish: employed or supported by the parish.—n. Parish′ioner one who belongs to or is connected with a parish: a member of a parish church.—Parish clerk the clerk or recording officer of a parish: the one who leads the responses in the service of the Church of England; Parish priest a priest who has charge of a parish; Parish register a book in which the births marriages and deaths of a parish are registered.
Checker: Mollie
Examples
- Men are vain of the beauty of their country, of their county, of their parish. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- He would like the wedding to be the day after tomorrow, quite privately; at the church of his parish--not at ours. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- I am but the incumbent of a poor country parish: my aid must be of the humblest sort. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Nor let the Parish touch me, not yet so much as look at me! Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- I had a few lines on parish business from Mr. Weston this morning, and at the end of them he gave me a brief account of what had happened. Jane Austen. Emma.
- This here boy, sir, wot the parish wants to 'prentis,' said Mr. Gamfield. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- I am proud to have been born in the same county and parish as yourself. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- In the parson's croft, behind the rectory, are the musicians of the three parish bands, with their instruments. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- The least they pretended was that they were going to cut Lowick Parish into sixes and sevens. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Your parish there was small, said Jane. Jane Austen. Emma.
- He laboured faithfully in the parish. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- The parish-clerk is a man like me (except that I've got a deal more learning than most of them--though I don't boast of it). Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- If the collector himself should become bankrupt, the parish which elects him must answer for his conduct to the receiver-general of the election. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- They generally, therefore, chuse to come upon the parish. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- No, sir, Dr. Becher is an Englishman, and there isn't a man in the parish who has a better-lined waistcoat. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- For a fortnight past no cloth had been destroyed; no outrage on mill or mansion had been committed in the three parishes. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- I shall be too busy for whist; I shall have two parishes, said the Vicar, preferring not to discuss the virtues of that game. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- The tythe in the greater part of those parishes which pay what is called a modus, in lieu of all other tythe is a tax of this kind. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- They were the bonfires of other parishes and hamlets that were engaged in the same sort of commemoration. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- Rome was to support him, and he was to restore the authority of Rome in the parishes. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- This last sum, indeed, does not exceed what frequently earned by common labourers in many country parishes. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- It is both lighter than the Spanish tax, and the greater part of towns and parishes are allowed to pay a composition in lieu of it. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- And so I told her I had been a poor child myself, and it was according to parishes. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- You're not in a state to be let come upon strange parishes 'ceptin as a Casual. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
Checker: Newman