Results for parish

Definitions of parish:

part of speech: adjective

Pertaining to, or maintained by, a church or congregation.

part of speech: noun

A church district under the charge of a clergyman; a congregation.

part of speech: adjective

Belonging or relating to a parish: employed or supported by the parish.

part of speech: adjective

Pert. to a parish; maintained by a parish.

part of speech: noun

A district under one pastor: an ecclesiastical district having officers of its own and supporting its own poor.

Usage examples for parish:

• One of these fine days you'll drink and curse and game yourself out of a parish "Audrey", Mary Johnston

• I have seen lots of dead people, because my father always takes me to look at them in the parish to remind me of my own latter end, as he says, but they never made me dream before. "Love Eternal", H. Rider Haggard

• " The parish cannot stand it," said Mrs. Murray. "Esther", Henry Adams

• The farmer, strong in his laws of settlement, tried at once to pass him into the next parish "Prose Idylls", Charles Kingsley