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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
parish
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a parish churchBritish English (= the main Christian church in a particular area)
▪ This is the parish church for three villages near here.
parish church
parish clerk
parish pump
▪ parish pump politics
parish register
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
large
▪ Several more substantial gentry houses can still be found in the rural parts of Dronfield's large parish.
▪ The population of its large parish, which included several rural outliers, stood at about 2,700.
▪ They are much larger than parishes or townships.
▪ This large parish now had two Anglican churches but Nonconformity was as pronounced as it had been in the seventeenth century.
local
▪ A variety of independent museum are run by Trusts, local societies, parish councils and enthusiastic individuals.
▪ Another college calls on local parish organists and music group leaders to help with occasional workshops.
▪ Wilson was educated in the local parish school.
▪ The local parish council has been debating a possible site since nineteen sixty-four.
▪ William had regularly attended the local parish Church but had not shown any particular religious interest.
▪ The local parish council has often been in the hands of a group leading the area into decline.
rural
▪ May I suggest that you include the rural parishes in Wyre District as far south as Garstang in this consultation.
▪ Distribution of guilds was uneven, many rural parishes having none at all, while a town might contain several.
▪ In 1660 provision was very limited, especially in the rural parishes.
▪ Some rural parishes also recorded relatively high adventitious populations.
▪ He was vicar of a rural parish in which he was very happy and had no desire to move.
▪ Such demographic changes wrought by industrialism meant the decline of rural parishes and the creation of a new urbanised and industrial poor.
small
▪ In 1563 this small parish contained twenty-one families but by 1670 only eight households remained.
▪ To a small parish church with few resources, the laws of copyright may seem somewhat overbearing.
▪ The smaller parish or community council may prefer to carry out all business through the full council instead of appointing committees.
■ NOUN
boundary
▪ By the 1820s Brighton had sprawled along several miles of cliff top, almost to the edge of its parish boundaries.
▪ Another reason for such sharp changes of alignment in otherwise straight enclosure roads is parish boundaries.
▪ Passing over the parish boundary at Sunderlandwick, the old toll bar is on the right, and Bar Farm opposite.
▪ When the latter were realigned or made anew they often met the earlier roads at a sharp angle on the parish boundaries.
▪ He noted the incidence of barrows reused as Saxon cemeteries and other Saxon burials on or near parish boundaries in Wessex.
▪ The parish boundaries were often indistinct until after the Norman conquest, but there may have been 150 of these by 1066.
▪ Desmond Bonney followed his initial research by an examination of parish boundaries associated with Roman roads and late prehistoric linear earthworks.
▪ In our own case, if we were free to plant beyond our parish boundaries, we should already have done so.
church
▪ It benefits from a lovely site, opposite the parish church and close to farm buildings, away from the village centre.
▪ The parish church at Chiaramonte has possession of the remains, which are kept under the altar in an ancient urn.
▪ This was the only Nonconformist chapel Butterfield ever designed and in 1976 it became a parish church.
▪ Father Luke pedalled backwards in the direction of Whitechapel's parish church and fell over the barrow.
▪ The latter was recognised when the former religious hospital became the parish church of St John the Baptist in the fourteenth century.
▪ About 400 loyalist protesters gathered opposite police barriers below Drumcree parish church.
▪ The family has been told a rabbit would be allowed on the head stone of the infant in the parish church.
▪ At last they reached the village and joined the rest of the crowd as they thronged towards the green in front of the parish church.
clergy
▪ All authority, both of chapter and parish clergy derives from the bishop.
▪ The parish clergy had to give up their concubines and accept a higher degree of accountability for performance of their duties.
▪ Very high among Innocent III's ambitions was the improvement of the parish clergy.
▪ Other monks of the house became parish clergy.
clerk
▪ The parish clerk was asked to report the matter to the area surveyor.
council
▪ Now the former chairman of Merrybent parish council has written about his struggle against heart disease in a medical journal.
▪ Council meeting: The parish council met yesterday.
▪ In February 1988 the parish council launched a campaign for the provision of sea defences.
▪ However the parish council disapproved of the plan because of the possible distraction it would cause to drivers.
▪ There is also a third tier of parish councils, with minimal powers.
▪ A variety of independent museum are run by Trusts, local societies, parish councils and enthusiastic individuals.
▪ At the third tier, parish councils were created in 1894 and charged with administering poor relief.
▪ He was also on parish councils and acted as the school's manager.
councillor
▪ He concluded by thanking vice-chairman Tony Rudgard who has produced the useful monthly newsletter for parish councillors.
▪ Campaigners now hope parish councillors will abandon their scheme for 30 new lights and accept alternative proposals instead.
▪ He is a parish councillor, school governor and a member of Yorkshire Water Consultative Committee.
▪ He spent 33 years as a parish councillor, 24 of them as parish council chairman.
▪ Phil Hughes, a district councillor and parish councillor, who lives in Bowes parish.
▪ I enclose some of your forms completed to the best of my ability from information given by parish councillors.
▪ Garvey had difficulty in making a passer-by understand that he wanted to speak to a parish councillor or the Bishop.
hall
▪ Afterwards we braved the blizzards and all met for tea and home baking in the parish hall.
▪ On entering the parish hall, he was surprised to smell the unmistakable odor of chicken noodle soup.
▪ Rich/Poor meal - sell tickets for a meal, use your parish hall.
▪ He turned the key in the lock, and went in the side door of the old parish hall.
▪ We opened up the parish hall to the wounded and dead which were brought in from all parts of the village.
▪ Though several people still mingled in the parish hall, they were alone in the kitchen.
▪ The visitors will have a buffet reception on Saturday night in the parish hall.
▪ It was an evening when I knew Lily went to a weekly patriotic sewing and knitting circle in a near-by parish hall.
magazine
▪ When it comes to advertising, more use could be made of diocesan newspapers in addition to parish magazines and the local press.
▪ An appeal in the parish magazine has raised three thousand pounds, still leaving them five thousand short.
▪ The parish magazines were Church business: Anna was the Rector's wife.
▪ I went round this morning with the parish magazine.
▪ So Hannah, 16, penned an open reply in her dad's parish magazine.
▪ She had been expecting Hubert Molland with the parish magazine, which was why she had answered the door.
▪ I suppose that this means that this month's parish magazine should be a special holiday edition.
priest
▪ This had a record of superb parish priests and a full congregation.
▪ He immersed himself in parish work and made himself indispensable to the overworked parish priest.
▪ Y., who had accepted him as a parish priest.
▪ He's a sort of diocesan works manager responsible to the bishop for the smooth running of the parish priests.
▪ Arsenio Carrillo served as a parish priest at San Agust n from 1956 to 1963, and returned in 1969.
▪ The 10,300 parish priests whose job it is to man these churches are thus a rather scant resource.
▪ Later she told her parish priest.
register
▪ This also explains why there is no record of the burials in the parish register.
▪ The plaintiff was unlawfully charged for making extracts from a parish register, and was held entitled to recover back the payments.
▪ The surplus recorded in the parish register must have been lost through migration to other places.
▪ Wherever possible, they should be used in conjunction with parish registers and other sources.
▪ Indeed, in the author's own village the parish register was being kept in Latin as late as 1657.
▪ Such measures of absences from parish registers are the crudest of indicators, but other evidence points in the same direction.
■ VERB
become
▪ When not quite fourteen years old he became organist of his parish church, San Lorenzo in Damaso, Rome.
▪ This was the only Nonconformist chapel Butterfield ever designed and in 1976 it became a parish church.
▪ Under the plan, the missions were to become parish churches and the neophytes were to be released from mission jurisdiction.
▪ The latter was recognised when the former religious hospital became the parish church of St John the Baptist in the fourteenth century.
▪ Not all, however, survived, and of those that did, not all became parish churches.
▪ Other monks of the house became parish clergy.
live
▪ I live in a parish of 12,000 and a town of 30,000.
▪ Sacraments are given by priests living in the nearest parish.
▪ Phil Hughes, a district councillor and parish councillor, who lives in Bowes parish.
▪ Ramsey could find nowhere to live within the parish.
▪ I think she still lives in the parish and commutes in.
serve
▪ Some had served the parish in the past, others were from the local Deanery.
▪ He has twice served as parish priest there over 10 years.
▪ Arsenio Carrillo served as a parish priest at San Agust n from 1956 to 1963, and returned in 1969.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a parish priest
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ And though there were plenty of strong opinions, much of the parish still seemed profoundly ambivalent about the protest.
▪ By mid-February the archdiocese had yet to release its report on the parish, and he was beginning to worry.
▪ However the parish council disapproved of the plan because of the possible distraction it would cause to drivers.
▪ In 1660 provision was very limited, especially in the rural parishes.
▪ In 1839 several townlands from Seagoe were joined with some from Tullylish to form the parish of Knocknamuckley.
▪ The name also appears repeatedly in the parish registers from 1562 onwards.
▪ There is also a third tier of parish councils, with minimal powers.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
parish

parish \par"ish\ (p[a^]r"[i^]sh), n. [OE. parishe, paresche, parosche, OF. paroisse, parosse, paroiche, F. paroisse, L. parochia, corrupted fr. paroecia, Gr. paroiki`a, fr. pa`roikos dwelling beside or near; para` beside + o'i^kos a house, dwelling; akin to L. vicus village. See Vicinity, and cf. Parochial.]

  1. (Eccl. & Eng. Law)

    1. That circuit of ground committed to the charge of one parson or vicar, or other minister having cure of souls therein.
      --Cowell.

    2. The same district, constituting a civil jurisdiction, with its own officers and regulations, as respects the poor, taxes, etc.

      Note: Populous and extensive parishes are now divided, under various parliamentary acts, into smaller ecclesiastical districts for spiritual purposes.
      --Mozley & W.

  2. 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. [U. S.]

  3. In Louisiana, a civil division corresponding to a county in other States.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
parish

c.1300, "district with its own church; members of such a church," from Anglo-French paroche, parosse (late 11c.), Old French paroisse, from Late Latin parochia "a diocese," alteration of Late Greek paroikia "a diocese or parish," from paroikos "a sojourner" (in Christian writers), in classical Greek, "neighbor," from para- "near" (see para- (1)) + oikos "house" (see villa).\n

\nSense development unclear, perhaps from "sojourner" as epithet of early Christians as spiritual sojourners in the material world. In early Church writing the word was used in a more general sense than Greek dioikesis, though by 13c. they were synonymous. Replaced Old English preostscyr, literally "priest-shire."

Wiktionary
parish

Etymology 1 n. In the Anglican, Eastern Orthodox and Roman Catholic Church or certain civil government entities such as the state of Louisiana, an administrative part of a diocese that has its own church. vb. 1 (lb en transitive) To place (an area, or rarely a person) into one or more #Nounes. 2 (context intransitive English) To visit residents of a parish. Etymology 2

vb. (pronunciation spelling lang=en perish from=Mary-marry-merry)

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WordNet
parish

  1. n. a local church community

  2. the local subdivision of a diocese committed to one pastor

Gazetteer
Parish, NY -- U.S. village in New York
Population (2000): 512
Housing Units (2000): 212
Land area (2000): 1.538490 sq. miles (3.984671 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 1.538490 sq. miles (3.984671 sq. km)
FIPS code: 56341
Located within: New York (NY), FIPS 36
Location: 43.405580 N, 76.126080 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 13131
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Parish, NY
Parish
Wikipedia
Parish

A parish is a church territorial unit constituting a division within a diocese. A parish is under the pastoral care and clerical jurisdiction of a parish priest, who might be assisted by one or more curates, and who operates from a parish church. Historically, a parish often covered the same geographical area as a manor (its association with the parish church remaining paramount).

By extension the term parish refers not only to the territorial unit but to the people of its community or congregation as well as to church property within it. In England this church property was technically in ownership of the parish priest ex-officio, vested in him on his institution to that parish.

Parish (disambiguation)

Parish is a church territorial unit constituting a division of a diocese.

  • Parish (Catholic Church)
  • Parish (Church of England)

Derived from church usage, Parish may also refer to a secular local government administrative entity:

  • Civil parish (disambiguation), several forms in the British Isles
  • Parish (administrative division)

Parish may also refer to:

Parish (Catholic Church)

In the Roman Catholic Church, a parish ( Latin: parochus) is a stable community of the faithful within a Particular Church, whose pastoral care has been entrusted to a parish priest (Latin: pastor), under the authority of the diocesan bishop. It is the lowest ecclesiastical subdivision in the Catholic episcopal polity, and the primary constituent unit of a diocese. In the 1983 Code of Canon Law, parishes are constituted under cc. 515–552, entitled "Parishes, Pastors, and Parochial Vicars."

Parish (administrative division)

A parish is an administrative division used by several countries. In Ireland and all parts of the British Isles except Wales it is known as a civil parish to distinguish it from the ecclesiastical parish.

The table below lists countries which use this administrative division:

colspan=2| Country or territory

Local name

Notes

colspan=2| Andorra

Parròquia

colspan=2| Antigua and Barbuda

Parish

colspan=2| Australia

Parish

colspan=2| Barbados

Parish

colspan=2| Bermuda

Parish

rowspan=3| Canada

New Brunswick

Parish

Prince Edward Island

Parish

Quebec

Parish municipality

colspan=2| Dominica

Parish

colspan=2| Ecuador

Parroquia

colspan=2| Estonia

Vald

colspan=2| Grenada

Parish

colspan=2| Guernsey

Parish

colspan=2| Ireland

Civil parish

colspan=2| Jamaica

Parish

colspan=2| Jersey

Parish

colspan=2| Latvia

Pagasts

colspan=2| Isle of Man

Parish

colspan=2| Montserrat

Parish

colspan=2| Philippines

Parokya

colspan=2| Saint Kitts and Nevis

Parish

colspan=2| Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

Parish

Spain

( Asturias, Galicia)

Parroquia, Collación

rowspan=4| United Kingdom

England

Civil parish

Northern Ireland

Civil parish

Scotland

Civil parish

Wales

Community

rowspan=2| United States

Louisiana

Parish

South Carolina (formerly)

Parish

Parish (surname)

Parish as a surname may refer to:

  • Billy Parish, American clean energy activist and entrepreneur
  • Diane Parish, British actress
  • Don Parish, Australian rugby league footballer and coach
  • Herman Parish, American author
  • John Parish, British musician
  • John K. Parish, American politician and jurist
  • Matthew Parish, English lawyer
  • Mitchell Parish, American lyricist
  • Robert Parish, American basketball player
  • Sam E. Parish, the eighth Chief Master Sergeant of the Air Force
  • Samuel Bonsall Parish, American botanist
  • Sarah Parish, English actress

See also:

  • Parrish (surname)
Parish (Church of England)

The parish with its local parish church is the basic unit of the Church of England. The parish within the Church of England structure has its roots in the Roman Catholic Church and survived the Reformation largely untouched. Church of England parishes are currently each within one of 44 dioceses divided between the provinces of Canterbury, with thirty dioceses and York with fourteen.

Each parish is administered by a parish priest who may be assisted in his pastoral duties by a curate or curates, who are also ordained but not the parish priest. There are wide variations in the size of parishes and church-going populations. A parish priest may have responsibility for one parish or for two or more and some are part of a team ministry. By extension the term parish refers not only to the territorial unit but to the people of its community or congregation.

Parish (Denmark)

A parish (sogn) in Denmark is an ecclesiastical community ( parish). Danish parishes originated in the Middle Ages. Beginning in 1645, Danish pastors were required to maintain a parish register, which in modern times has become a valuable tool for genealogical research.

Until the municipal reform of 1970, sogns were an administrative territorial unit of Denmark. In 1870, there were 1097 parish communities (sognekommuner). In 1970, there were more than 1300, and this number was reduced by the municipal reforms to 277 communities. After 1970, a community often comprised multiple parishes.

Even in the present day, the original parish boundaries still play a significant role, for example in determining community boundaries and school districts.

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Usage examples of "parish".

I believed I understood why she was so frightened of going to the workhouse or even, as Mr Advowson had told me, revealing her legal parish of settlement: this would enable her enemy to find her.

The Park, the advowson of the living, and the greater part of the parish, were bought by Joseph Baxendale, Esq.

Sir Robert Peel gave notice on the 7th of July, that, on the motion for committing the bill, he would move an instruction to the committee to divide it into two bills, that he might have an opportunity of rejecting altogether those parts of the bill which suppressed the Protestant churches of eight hundred and sixty parishes, appropriating their revenues to purposes not immediately in connection with the interests of the established church, and of supporting those provisions in which he could concur.

Miss Pettifer, instructing him to commence the calling of the banns in your own parish also.

The house had been empty for some time, and as soon as Reverend Smith accepted the call to go to Borley as minister of the parish, the Smiths began to hear rumors that the house was haunted.

Easter, I have been so fortunate as to be distinguished by the patronage of the Right Honourable Lady Catherine de Bourgh, widow of Sir Lewis de Bourgh, whose bounty and beneficence has preferred me to the valuable rectory of this parish, where it shall be my earnest endeavour to demean myself with grateful respect towards her ladyship, and be ever ready to perform those rites and ceremonies which are instituted by the Church of England.

Easter, I have been so fortunate as to be distinguished by the patronage of the Right Honourable Lady Catherine de Bourgh, widow of Sir Lewis de Bourgh, whose bounty and beneficence has preferred me to the valuable rectory of this parish, where it shall be my earnest endeavour to demean myself with grateful respect towards her Ladyship, and be ever ready to perform those rites and ceremonies which are instituted by the Church of England.

It was a large tent, as big as a parish marquee, and though both its wide entrances had been brailed back there was no wind to stir the damp air trapped under the high ridge.

Monmouth held a last council of war upon the square tower out of which springs the steeple of Bridgewater parish church, whence a good view can be obtained of all the country round.

Cochegrue, Nicalos Laferte, Joseph Brouet, Francois Parquoi, Sulpice Coupiau, all of this parish, and dead of wounds received in the fight on Mont Pelerine and at the siege of Fougeres.

In a word, it is not to be told how the second Mrs Balwhidder, my wife, showed the value of flying time, even to the concerns of this world, and was the mean of giving a life and energy to the housewifery of the parish, that has made many a one beek his shins in comfort, that would otherwise have had but a cold coal to blow at.

Sidney that he looked like a turkey-cock, had the morals of a parish bull, and need never hope for a new pig-pound as long as he or Midmore lived.

From time to time staccato notes of delight added a distinct jubilant quality to this symphony, heralding the arrival of some group of Church dignitaries from one or other of the seven principal parishes of Venice, gorgeous in robes of high festival and displaying the choicest of treasures from sacristies munificently endowed, as was meet for an ecclesiastical body to whom belonged one half of the area of Venice, with wealth proportionate.

The murderers spilled into the countryside where the disease had trickled but not entirely blanketing that parish with pandemic, just a smattering that somehow randomly slew different men.

He gave a great deal of time to his parishioners, to consulting his churchwardens, to starting choirs, to managing classes and parish expeditions.