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par·ish (par′is̸h)

noun

  1. a British church district with its own church and clergyman
  2. a district of British local civil government, often identical with the original church parish
  3. an administrative district of various churches, esp. a part of a diocese, under the charge of a priest or minister
    1. the members of the congregation of any church
    2. the territory in which they live
  5. ☆ a civil division in Louisiana, corresponding to a county

Etymology: ME parissche < OFr parroche < LL(Ec) parochia, for paroecia < LGr(Ec) paroikia, a diocese < Gr, a sojourning (in a foreign land, or, by early Christians, on earth) < paroikos, a stranger < para- (see para-) + oikos, dwelling: see eco-

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parish Synonyms

parish

n.

ecclesiastical unit, charge, archdiocese, congregation, demesne, cure, parochial unit, territory, county (in Louisiana), diocese; see also area 2, church 3.


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parish Usage Examples

Converse of object

  • neighbor: Responses to the Reformation seem to have varied, both regionally and between neighboring parishes.

Preposition: in

  • county: The total number of parishes in the county is 465, exclusive of the new district parishes recently established.

Adjective modifier

  • ecclesiastical: The church, serving both places, is in Everton village in what was until 1965 a detached portion of Tetworth ecclesiastical parish.

Modifies a noun

  • priest: To my surprise the lady said she preferred me to be her parish priest.

Noun used with modifier

  • rouge: Program provided percent were tallied louisiana rouge parish voted and console systemsheadquartered.
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   You were silly like us: your gift survived it all; 40 The parish of rich women, physical decay, Yourself; mad Ireland hurt you into poetry. Now Ireland has her madness and her weather still, For poetry makes nothing happen.

-Auden,W(ystan) H(ugh)

It ought to be quite as natural and straightforward a matter for a labourer to take his pension from his parish, because he has deserved well of his parish, as for a man in higher rank to take his pension from his country, because he has deserved well of his country.

-Ruskin,John

[To] have an unmannerly fat clerk ask the consent of every butcher in the parish to join John Absolute and Lydia Languish, spinster.Oh that I should live to hear myself called spinster!

-Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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