parishioner (paris honer)

[Early mod. E. (Sc.) parischoner; prop. * parishener, Quoted in A. Hume's Orthographie (E. E. T. S.), Pref., p. vii. What tedious homily of love have you wearied your pa rishi oners withal, and never cried "Have patience, good people!" Shak., As you Like it, iii. 2. 164. was not large enough to hold all the The church parishioners of a parish which stretched over distant villages and hamlets. George Eliot , Felix Holt, iii. Paris i an (pa-riz'ian), a. and n. [ F. Paris, It. Parigi ), Paris, the capital of France, in L. Lutetia Parisiorum, Lutetia of the Parisii, a people of Celtic Gaul, bordering on the Senones.] I. a. Of or pertaining to Paris, the chief city of France, or its inhabitants, etc. II. n. A native of or resident in Paris. Parisienne (pa-re-zi-en'), n. [F., fem. of Pari sien : see Paris i an , a.] A female native of or resident in Paris.