PARISH
\pˈaɹɪʃ], \pˈaɹɪʃ], \p_ˈa_ɹ_ɪ_ʃ]\
Definitions of PARISH
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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That circuit of ground committed to the charge of one parson or vicar, or other minister having cure of souls therein.
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The same district, constituting a civil jurisdiction, with its own officers and regulations, as respects the poor, taxes, etc.
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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.
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In Louisiana, a civil division corresponding to a county in other States.
By Oddity Software
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That circuit of ground committed to the charge of one parson or vicar, or other minister having cure of souls therein.
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The same district, constituting a civil jurisdiction, with its own officers and regulations, as respects the poor, taxes, etc.
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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.
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In Louisiana, a civil division corresponding to a county in other States.
By Noah Webster.
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A church district under the charge of a clergyman; a congregation.
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Pertaining to, or maintained by, a church or congregation.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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A district under one pastor: an ecclesiastical district having officers of its own and supporting its own poor.
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Belonging or relating to a parish: employed or supported by the parish.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
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Belonging to or maintained by a parish.
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A district under a secular priest of a pastor, and assigned to a particular church; those under the charge of a particular pastor.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
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n. [Latin, Greek] The precinct or territorial jurisdiction of a secular priest, as distinguished from a cathedral, conventual, or diocesan jurisdiction;—especially, a territorial district and the inhabitants thereof, committed to the charge of one vicar or other Christian minister, who officiates in the church and has the cure of souls within its bounds.
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