parish

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This building for the parish has been here since 1855.

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  1. noun An administrative part of a diocese that has its own church in the Anglican, Roman Catholic, and some other churches.
  2. noun The members of such a parish; a religious community attending one church.
  3. noun A political subdivision of a British county, usually corresponding in boundaries to an original ecclesiastical parish.

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  • This building for the parish has been here since 1855. —  Freep.com - RSS
  • Pray take the matter in hand when you go home, Miss Gauntlet Adela smiled, and did not blush; nor did she say that she quite agreed with him that the vicar of a parish should be a married man Well, I shan't ask any questions," said Bertram, as soon as he and Harcourt were in the street, "or allow you to offer any opinion; because, as we have both agreed, you have not pluck enough to give it impartially." —  The Bertrams
  • The governing agencies of the parish were an elected council (_junta de parochia_), presided over by the parish priest, and the regidor_, named by the district governor to represent the interests of the central government. —  The Governments of Europe
  • In the churchwardens' accounts of this parish is an entry of similar import to that quoted by LEICESTRIENSIS: "1656, Pd. —  Notes and Queries, Number 179, April 2, 1853. A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc
  • Several other places in this parish were also denominated from either the names or titles of the Russell family--as Russell Street, Bedford Street and Bury, Tavistock Street Chandos Street, &c.; King and Henrietta Streets were so named in honour of Charles I. and his Queen; and James and York Streets, of the Duke of York, afterwards James II 2] Stow's "Survey," p. 829, edit. —  The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 17, No. 473, January 29, 1831
 

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  1. Middle English, from Old French parroche, from Late Latin parochia, diocese, alteration of paroecia, from Late Greek paroikiā, from Greek, a sojourning, from paroikos, neighboring, neighbor, sojourner : para-, near; see para-1 + oikos, house; see weik-1 in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English parishe, parissche, parisshe, parisch, parysche, parych, paresche, parosche, parisse, paroshe, parsche, from Old French parosse, paroiche, paroche, parroche, paroice, baroche, French paroisse =Spanish parroquia = Portuguese parochia =Italian parrocchia, from Late Latin Parœcia, corruptly parochia, from LGr. παροικία, an ecclesiastical district, from Greek πάροικος, neighboring, dwelling beside. from παρά, beside, + οίκος, house.
 

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