Parish is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for PARISH in dictionary:

NOUN:
• a subdivision of a diocese, usually having its own church and a priest or pastor
• (in the Christian Church) a small administrative district typically having its own church and a priest or pastor
• the smallest unit of local government, constituted only in rural areas
• (in Louisiana) a territorial division corresponding to a county in other states.
• area that has its own church and a priest or pastor
• That circuit of ground committed to the charge of one parson or vicar, or other minister having cure of souls therein.
• The same district, constituting a civil jurisdiction, with its own officers and regulations, as respects the poor, taxes, etc.
• 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.
• In Louisiana, a civil division corresponding to a county in other States.
• a local church community
• the local subdivision of a diocese committed to one pastor
ADJECTIVE:
• Of or pertaining to a parish; parochial; as, a parish church; parish records; a parish priest; maintained by the parish; as, parish poor.
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• an ecclesiastical district

Words related to PARISH

parishes13

Words that contain PARISH

parishad14 parishen13 parishes13 parishads15 parishens14 interparish16 parishioner16 parishioners17

How to use PARISH in a sentence

• Only a few weeks ago this was an old parish church of singular beauty.
• Ruling his parish with a rod of iron, he is loved and respected by most of his flock.
• The parish is the largest in the kingdom, including the whole Forest of Dartmoor.
• Taking Sunday duty in the parish where Merton and his neighbours lived, Mr.
• They were going to a parish on the North Coast, right away across the Duchy, where his father had been presented to a living.
• Such was the state of the parish when our poor scholar complained one day in school of severe illness.
• If he is unable to do so in person, he will entrust the matter to the parish priest or the vicar who resides in the port, sending him a copy of the questions to be asked.
• The man, who seemed as weary as his horse, held a paper in his hands, which the priest of that parish took from him and read aloud to us.
• The funeral was held that afternoon, and it seemed that the entire parish turned out.
• The vicar of a certain Devonshire parish was a distinguished student of the black art, and possessed a large collection of mysterious books and manuscripts.
• I ought perhaps to state, that this is a country parish in Herefordshire.
• It is continuous with Bristol, and where the one begins or the other ends is not evident except to the parish authorities.
• But the tone which did well enough when the pair were separated by the whole breadth of Europe, was less suitable when they were in the same parish.
• This was exactly the life Felicita had dreaded for him, an easy, half-occupied life in a small parish, where there was little active employment for either mind or body.
• I spent my days in parish visiting and my nights at the various dressing stations.
• He afterwards prosecuted his trade in the parish of Crawfordjohn, and in the town of Ayr.
• Elwin is sure to be in the house or garden, and I, at the worst, not further off than the extreme boundary of my parish.
• Parish University Washington William Baines Okanogan West Virginia Fred E.
• John Baptist in the cathedral, an arrangement which shows that then as now the parish of St.
• He is chiefly to be remembered for an attempt to destroy the early Norman building adjoining the Bishop’s Palace, and thought to have been the parish church of St.
• During these weary months of anxiety and torment I found some relief from the mental strain in practical parish work, nursing the sick, trying to brighten the lot of the poor.
• Parish seldom punished his slaves, and never did he permit his overseer to do so.
• Little colonies of Sisters, planted here and there, annexed parish after parish.
• Her father through forty years was rector of a parish in the South of England.
• His father was a clergyman and vicar of the parish.
• XVII BY THE RIVER As Nan went down the street next morning with Captain Parish, who had been most prompt in keeping his appointment, they were met by Mr.
• When this work was finished, the Lord had other employment ready for him in his own parish.
• An occurrence of such moment was not to be kept concealed in the parish of Aldington.

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