Parishes is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for PARISHES in dictionary:

NOUN:
• PARISH, 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.
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• an ecclesiastical district

Words related to PARISHES

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How to use PARISHES in a sentence

• The coat-making trade in East London is a closely- defined district, with an area of one square mile, including the whole of Whitechapel and parts of two adjoining parishes.
• Engrossed with their children, their parishes, their miserable household cares and perplexities.
• This circumstance of itself ought to operate as a powerful inducement to those parishes in which no Banks are yet established to be up and doing.
• In the colonial legislature of Virginia the representatives sat not for parishes, but for counties.
• We find the distinction of parishes, nay, even of mother churches, so early as in the laws of King Edgar, about the year 970.
• And it is shocking, to say the least, to see churches emptied and parishes thrown into war for the sake of such matters.
• It was the two parishes of Errigle-Keeran and Errigle-Truagh against one another.
• Iberia, Terrebonne and Lafayette parishes have been especially noted as under this reign of terror, and from these we have many pupils.
• Some of the parishes have been almost entirely transformed by their work.
• In twenty-three parishes of Lincolnshire, for instance, his rents doubled on enclosure.
• Some of the western parishes not unfrequently suffer terribly from drought.
• Malbaie, like a hundred other populous, present-day Roman Catholic parishes, was nursed in the first instance by the travelling missionary.
• At Malbaie, as in dozens of other parishes, there is not, except in summer, a single Protestant.
• Beside the ministers in ordinary of Saint-Roch, thirteen priests from other parishes were present.
• Mary alone has more energy and power in her nature than any ten men you can pick out in the united parishes of Birstall and Haworth.
• A bill was brought in by Whitbread for the education of the poor, by establishing schools in all the parishes of England.
• About the end of 1831, a formidable insurrection, which had been organised for some time, broke out among the slaves, particularly in the parishes of Trelawney, Portland, and St.
• Since the year 1718 the lord-lieutenant and the privy-council had united two hundred and eighty-nine parishes, consisting of the union of two or more parishes.
• Three hundred and fifty parishes, above a third of the kingdom, were at once declared vacant.
• Most country parishes have their sensible woman, who lays down the law on all affairs, spiritual and temporal.
• Here, however, the salaries are regulated by a common scale, without reference to particular congregations or parishes.
• The way lay through the town and then across the moors in undulating ascent until at the highest point a rough track crossed the road at a spot where four parishes met.
• Midnight had just struck in the five parishes of Southwark, with the breaks and differences of tone of their various bells.
• In the small country parishes the incumbent was often the only, or almost the only, educated man in the community.
• Mr Fairman was incumbent of one of the loveliest parishes in England, and the guardian and teacher of six boys.

Similar words containing PARISHE without suffix s

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