Paris (paris)

[NL., from the second element of herb - paris, S. Butler , Hudibras, I. ii. 172. Paris green. See green1. parish (par'ish), n. and a. [ = B. paroi e Sp. = Pg.paroc rochia, early placed under the super i early Christian ch ., a district placed superintendence of a bishop; a diocese. The Word Parochia or parish antiently signified what we now call the Diocese of a Bishop. Bourne's Pop . Antiq . (1777), p. 268. 2. In Great Britain and Ireland, a district or territorial division. (a) Originally, an ecclesiastical district, the township or cluster of townships in the care of a single priest or pastor. Dametas for his part came piping and dancing, the merriest man in a parish . Sir P. Sidney, Arcadia, i. We find the distinction of parishes, nay, even of mother churches, so early as in the laws of King Edgar, about the year 970. Black stone, Com., Int., iv. § 112. In regard to Ecclesiastical jurisdiction, when the Popes a igned particular churches to each presbyter, and divided parishes among them, Honor i us, archbishop of Canterbury about the year 636, first began to separate parishes in England, as we read in the history of Canterbury. Camden, Britannia, p. clxxxix. In one of his drawers is the rich silk ca ock presented to him by his congregation at Leatherhead (when the young curate quitted that parish for London duty). Thackeray, New comes, xi. (b) Now, also, a civil division of the country for purposes of education, the regulation of sanitary matters, etc.: it is in local self-government, such as the legal care of the poor, general conterminous with the ecclesiastical parish. At present there are in England and Wales about 13,000 есclesiastical parishes, and about 15,000 civil parishes, of which not more than 10,000 coincide with the ecclesiastical districts bearing the same name. In Scotland in 1888 there re 934 civil parishes or parishes proper ( quoad omnia) were and 386 parishes quoad sacra (that is, parishes in respect of things ecclesiastical only). There are several other minor cla es of parishes, as the land-tax and Burial Act parishes in England, and the burghal and extra-burghal parishes in Scotland. 3. In the United States: ( a ) In colonial times, in some of the southern colonies, a subdivision All the highways within the parish must be kept in repair by the parish , i. e, by the inhabitants who are rated Chambers's Encyc . (under parish ). On the parish, at the parish charge; dependent on public charity. He left 4 or 5 children on the parish . Aubrey , Lives of Eminent Men, II. 387. Quoad sacra parish, quoad omnia parish. See def. 2 (b).- To come upon the parish. Same as to come upon the town (b) (which see, under come ). II. a. 1. Of or belonging to a parish; parochial: as, the parish church or minister; par ish records; the parish school. IMG:content-2357.png:[blocks in formation] 3. Rustic; provincial. A crippled lad [who] coming turn'd to fly, But, scared with threats of jail and halter, gave To him that fluster'd his poor parish wits The letter which he brought. Tennyson, Aylmer's Field. Parish apprentice, constable, court, district. See the nouns. Parish clerk. See clerk, 3. - Parish lantern, the moon. Hall i well.-Parish meeting, a meeting of the members of the parish or ecclesiastical society connected with a local church. [New Eng.]-Parish priest, a priest in charge of a parish; in Ireland, the principal Roman Catholic priest in a parish. Formerly, in Great Britain, parish priest was sometimes used to denote either a reader in a parish church, a curate, a vicar, or a rector. A parish - priest was of the pilgrim-train; An awful, reverend, and religious man. Dryden, Character of a Good Parson, 1. 1. Parish system, a system by which a parish, or an ecclesi astical society, is organized in connection with a local church, having coördinate powers and an a ociate voice in the selection of a pastor. See I., 3 ( d ), above, and society . [New Eng.] - Parish topt, a large top kept by the parish for the exercise and amusement of the peasantry. Nares . He's a coward and a coystrill that will not drink to my niece till his brains turn o' the toe like a parish - top , Shak ., T. N., 1. 3. 44. I'll hazard My life upon it, that a boy of twelve Should scourge him hither like a parish - top , And make him dance before you. Beau , and Fl . , Thierry and Theodoret, ii. 4 Parish watch, a parish constable. I must maintain a parish - watch against thieves and robbers, and give salaries to an overseer. Swift , Story of the Injured Lady. parish ent, n. [ME., also paroschian , pari hen , pari chen , paris chen , parschen , also parochien ; parochien , parrochien, paroisien, parro chienne , F. paroi ien = Sp. parroquiano = Pg. parochiano = It. parrocchiano , parochia nus , one belonging to a parish, a parishioner, parochia , paræcia , parish: see parish . Cf. parochian , parochin . Hence parishioner .] parishioner; also, parishioners collectively. A He was also a lerned man, a clerk That Cristes gospel trewely wolde preche; His pari hens devoutly wolde he tec he. Chaucer, Gen, Prol. to C. T., 1. 482. parishen Yet I ha'e seen him on a day, The pride of a' the parishen , Burns , I Coft a Stane o' Has lock Woo'. parish ing (par'ish-ing), n. A hamlet or small village adjoining and belonging to a parish. Hall i well . [Prov. Eng.]