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parish

noun
/ˈpæɹɪʃ/UK/ˈpæɹɪʃ/US/ˈpɛɹɪʃ/

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”).

  1. derived from παροικία — “a dwelling abroad”
  2. derived from parochia
  3. derived from paroisse
  4. inherited from parisshe

Definitions

  1. An administrative part of a diocese that has its own church.

    • Near-synonym: vicarate

  2. The community attending that church

    The community attending that church; the members of the parish.

  3. An ecclesiastical society, usually not bounded by territorial limits, but composed of…

    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.

  4. ›+ 6 more definitions

    1. In any of various countries, an administrative subdivision of an area, often of a county.

    2. To place (an area, or rarely a person) into one or more parishes.

      • 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.

    3. To visit residents of a parish.

      • […] 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.

    4. Pronunciation spelling of perish, representing Mary–marry–merry merger English.

    5. A surname.

    6. A town and village therein, in Oswego County, New York, United States.

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Derived

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

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for parish. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA