parish
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: Catholicism
Christianity
Roman-Catholicism
Etymology: From Middle English parisshe, from Old French paroisse (compare the obsolete variant paroch, from Anglo-Norman paroche, parosse), from Late Latin parochia, from Ancient Greek παροικία (paroikía, “a dwelling abroad”).
Inflected forms:
form: parishes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: paroch
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Scotland
obsolete
form: parishes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: parishing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: parished
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: parished
pos: verb
tags: past
form: paroch
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Scotland
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: An administrative part of a diocese that has its own church.
pos: noun
examples: With some of it on the south and more of it on the north of the great main thoroughfare that connects Aldgate and the East India Docks, St. Bede's at this period of its history was perhaps the poorest and most miserable parish in the East End of London.
Near-synonym: vicarate
gloss: The community attending that church; the members of the parish.
pos: noun
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
tags: US
gloss: In any of various countries, an administrative subdivision of an area, often of a county.
pos: noun
examples: Atlantic gales constantly buffet Morwenstow, whose seven hamlets together constitute Cornwall's most northerly parish. The village is dotted with trees moulded into weird shapes by the wind, and above the trees rise the vicarage chimneystacks resembling miniature church towers.
gloss: In any of various countries, an administrative subdivision of an area, often of a county.
pos: noun
gloss: To place (an area, or rarely a person) into one or more parishes.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: […] [m]akes possible, through the aid of the rural ministers, the development of the various phases of the District program, such as (a) Parishing of the District; (b) Interdenominational adjustment in the interest of rural religious advance […]
Father Malachy, a distant cousin, who was parished somewhere in the depths of Co. Monaghan, sat firmly in the chair in the corner, sipping his tea from a china cup.
Consequently, approaching half of the non-metropolitan population of England is parished (Table 2.2).
[…]
The South West and East Midlands are also particularly well parished while the North West, West Midlands and South East are poorly parished.
Dr Whitehead: In your written evidence, you have all in different ways made the distinction between NDOs in parished areas and NDOs in non-parished areas, […]
gloss: To visit residents of a parish.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: […] a chair immediately opposite to Tressady's place remained vacant. It was being kept for the eldest son of the house, his mother explaining carelessly to Lord Fontenoy that she believed he was "Out parishing somewhere, as usual."
"You will take pleasure in parishing. Mother used to parish."
"How do you know I like parishing?"
"Your uncle said so."
"Oh! did he?"
"And you may like the rectory people; it's a fine old house, and often full of visitors."
"Are you going ‘parishing’ this morning?" inquired Diana, as she watched him fill and light his pipe.
In 1916 he was Rector of Hampton Bishop, a village on the River Wye outside Hereford, and one day while “parishing”, as he called visiting his flock, a farmers' wife, a Mrs. Christopher Field, gave him an account of her father's death-bed; […]
Related words: parochial
Derived words: a dumb priest never got a parish
civil parish
come upon the parish
emparish
interparish
Longparish
nonparish
outparish
parish assembly
parish church
parish clerk
parish council
parish house
parishioner
parish lantern
parish priest
parish prig
parish-pump
parish pump politics
parish register
parish room
parish school
parish seat
purser rigged and parish damned
Saint Ann Parish
unparished
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