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- Parish - n. - That circuit of ground committed to the charge of one parson or vicar, or other minister having cure of souls therein.
- Parish - n. - The same district, constituting a civil jurisdiction, with its own officers and regulations, as respects the poor, taxes, etc.
- Parish - n. - 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.
- Parish - n. - In Louisiana, a civil division corresponding to a county in other States.
- Parish - a. - Of or pertaining to a parish; parochial; as, a parish church; parish records; a parish priest; maintained by the parish; as, parish poor.
- Parishen - n. - A parishioner.
- Parishional - a. - Of or pertaining to a parish; parochial.
- Parishioner - n. - One who belongs to, or is connected with, a parish.
- Pot-walloper - n. - A voter in certain boroughs of England, where, before the passage of the reform bill of 1832, the qualification for suffrage was to have boiled (walloped) his own pot in the parish for six months.
- Precinct - n. - A parish or prescribed territory attached to a church, and taxed for its support.
- Parish - a. - Of or pertaining to a parish; parochial; as, a parish church; parish records; a parish priest; maintained by the parish; as, parish poor.
- Presbytery - n. - A judicatory consisting of all the ministers within a certain district, and one layman, who is a ruling elder, from each parish or church, commissioned to represent the church in conjunction with the pastor. This body has a general jurisdiction over the churches under its care, and next below the provincial synod in authority.
- Borsholder - a. - The head or chief of a tithing, or borough (see 2d Borough); the headborough; a parish constable.
- Cure - n. - Spiritual charge; care of soul; the office of a parish priest or of a curate; hence, that which is committed to the charge of a parish priest or of a curate; a curacy; as, to resign a cure; to obtain a cure.
- Vestry - n. - A body, composed of wardens and vestrymen, chosen annually by a parish to manage its temporal concerns.
- Person - n. - A parson; the parish priest.
- Rectory - n. - The province of a rector; a parish church, parsonage, or spiritual living, with all its rights, tithes, and glebes.
- Rate - n. - A tax or sum assessed by authority on property for public use, according to its income or value; esp., in England, a local tax; as, parish rates; town rates.
- Clerk - n. - A parish officer, being a layman who leads in reading the responses of the Episcopal church service, and otherwise assists in it.
- Questman - n. - A collector of parish rents.
- Pentecostals - n. pl. - Offerings formerly made to the parish priest, or to the mother church, at Pentecost.
- Mortuary - a. - A sort of ecclesiastical heriot, a customary gift claimed by, and due to, the minister of a parish on the death of a parishioner. It seems to have been originally a voluntary bequest or donation, intended to make amends for any failure in the payment of tithes of which the deceased had been guilty.
- Glebe - n. - The land belonging, or yielding revenue, to a parish church or ecclesiastical benefice.
- Clerk-ale - n. - A feast for the benefit of the parish clerk.
- Wake - n. - An annual parish festival formerly held in commemoration of the dedication of a church. Originally, prayers were said on the evening preceding, and hymns were sung during the night, in the church; subsequently, these vigils were discontinued, and the day itself, often with succeeding days, was occupied in rural pastimes and exercises, attended by eating and drinking, often to excess.
- Rector - n. - A clergyman who has the charge and cure of a parish, and has the tithes, etc.; the clergyman of a parish where the tithes are not impropriate. See the Note under Vicar.
- Vestry - n. - A room appendant to a church, in which sacerdotal vestments and sacred utensils are sometimes kept, and where meetings for worship or parish business are held; a sacristy; -- formerly called revestiary.
- Parsonage - n. - The glebe and house, or the house only, owned by a parish or ecclesiastical society, and appropriated to the maintenance or use of the incumbent or settled pastor.
- Parson - n. - A person who represents a parish in its ecclesiastical and corporate capacities; hence, the rector or incumbent of a parochial church, who has full possession of all the rights thereof, with the cure of souls.
- Peculiar - n. - A particular parish or church which is exempt from the jurisdiction of the ordinary.
- Guild - v. t. - A religious association or society, organized for charitable purposes or for assistance in parish work.
- Papa - n. - A parish priest in the Greek Church.
- Institutor - n. - A presbyter appointed by the bishop to institute a rector or assistant minister over a parish church.