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• I assisted the ailing vicar in the exercise of his parish duties.From the entry exercise
• Mothering Sunday arose from the custom of visiting mother churches at Mid-Lent, rather than the usual parish church.From the entry mother church
• Canon Smith is our new parish priest.From the entry canon
• The 12-century St Athernase Church is one of the finest surviving examples of an unaisled Romanesque parish church in Scotland.From the entry unaisled
• He was hunted from the parish.From the entry hunt
• The parish deacon was always pushing to get new kneelers for the church, probably because he was old and his knees were sensitive.From the entry kneeler
• Did'n'ee 'ear as Jim Tunkiss brought three children to the parish? I reckon 'e inna married, but 'e's bin buttyin' along o' one o' them Monsells.From the entry butty
• Town and parish councils, which are funded largely through “precepts” on tax bills, face no such restrictions.2026 February 1, “Why lots of English towns are creating puny local governments: Mad for parish councils”, in The Economist. From the entry precept
• In the first year of West, Czechs founded both a Catholic parish and a Moravian Brethren church.2017 October 12, Philip D. Smith, From Praha to Prague: Czechs in an Oklahoma Farm Town, University of Oklahoma Press, →ISBN, page 80. From the entry matriculate
• In its revived form at Edgmond it constitutes part of the annual “feast” of the parish schools.2015, Felicity Trotman, A Year in the Life of Victorian Britain. From the entry clip the church
• Lixnaw is my parish and my hurling club; Ballinclogher is my townland and my home.2014, Paul Galvin, “North Kerry – Rebel Stronghold”, in In My Own Words: The Autobiography, London: Transworld Ireland, Transworld…. From the entry townland
• Finuge is the football side of the parish, about 8 miles from where I grew up.2014, Paul Galvin, “North Kerry – Rebel Stronghold”, in In My Own Words: The Autobiography, London: Transworld Ireland, Transworld…. From the entry townland
• Every labyrinthed passage and each loose paving stone along my parish streets.2014, Lois Leveen, Juliet's Nurse, page 42. From the entry labyrinthed
• The building was your typical “cafegymatorium,” that all-purpose building found in parishes throughout the northeast.2013, Gil Francisco, Behind Success: A Principal’s Reminisce, page 51. From the entry cafegymatorium
• He may serve within a parish or another institution, such as a school or a hospital.2001, John P. Mack, Priests: An Inside Look, Saint Mary's Press, →ISBN, page 28. From the entry religious
• A prehistoric ridgeway cuts across the parish, which contains two 19th-century turnpike tollhouses.1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 93, Broadwindsor. From the entry ridgeway
• St Botolph's parish records ascribed three deaths to 'mother', an old name for the uterus.1979, Thomas R. Forbes, “The changing face of death in London”, in Charles Webster, editor, Health, Medicine and Mortality in the…. From the entry mother
• There is a parish council called the Douzaine, which, as its name suggests, consists of twelve members.1979, Raoul Lemprière, Portrait of the Channel Islands. From the entry douzaine
• The reader should remember that husbandmen in fielden parishes formed a majority of the rural population.1972, Christopher Hill, The World Turned Upside Down, Folio Society, published 2016, page 33. From the entry fielden
• The experience reported by some priests of their postconciliar parishes appears to bear out my thesis.1967 March 3, Daniel Callahan, “The Renewal Mass”, in Commonweal, page 622; quoted in J. Paul Williams, What Americans Believe and How…. From the entry postconciliar
• This reflects a considerable local migration from the peasant areas of the parish into the canelands.1965, Lawrence Alan Eyre, Land and Population in the Sugar Belt of Jamaica. From the entry caneland
• “A very welcome, kind, useful present, that means to the parish.1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter VII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC. From the entry welcome
• These eighty-two parishes were roughly coterminous with the existing seigneuries, but not always so.1915, William Bennett Munro et al., The Seigneurs of Old Canada (Chronicles of Canada), volume 5. From the entry coterminous
• A lockman is appointed for each parish, and acts as deputy or assistant to the coroner.1900, Arthur William Moore, A History of the Isle of Man - Volume 2, page 746. From the entry lockman
• The Parish Council is financed by raising a small levy - the precept - on all residential properties within the parish.2019, “Medstead Parish Council”, in Medstead Parish Council website, archived from the original on 07 Jul 2019. From the entry precept
• Advowson is the right to appoint the incumbent clergy of a parish, so three advowsons meant three incumbents.2017, Ben Aaronovitch, The Furthest Station, Gollancz, page 88. From the entry advowson
• There may also have been areas consisting of bruery and heath located in the adjacent parish of Gunton.2016, David Butcher, Medieval Lowestoft, page 67. From the entry bruery
• Many départemental archives in France have digitized civil, parish, and census records and have made them available online for free viewing.2015, Michael Dunn, A Beginner’s Guide to Online Genealogy: Learn How to Trace Your Family History and Discover Your Roots, Adams Media…. From the entry départemental
• George's, and Prince George's parish churches face northeast and St.2014 April 11, Paul Porwoll, Against All Odds: History of Saint Andrew's Parish Church, Charleston, 1706–2013, Bloomington, Ind.: WestBow…. From the entry east
• Come rain or shine, he continued to walk his parish.2008, Eric Gutierrez, Disciples of the Street: The Promise of a Hip Hop Church, page 62. From the entry PJs
• Since a pop was a Russian Orthodox parish priest, the reference was hardly likely to endear her family to the French.2006, Peter Neville, A Traveller's History of Russia, section 123. From the entry pop
• St Michael, Crooked Lane provides an example of the small London parish dominated by one trade, in this case the stockfishmongers.2006, The Parish in Late Medieval England: Proceedings of the 2002 Harlaxton Symposium. From the entry stockfishmonger
• The depositions give no evidence of Easter hoglings, nor of visits outside the parish, though both may have occurred.1986, Notes and Queries for Somerset and Dorset, volume 32, page 810. From the entry hogling
• An ancient packhorse bridge over the River Derwent leads to the greystone cottages and riverside parish church of Baslow.1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 52. From the entry packhorse bridge
• In a number of parishes tithe was due on mills, and, at Fowey, on limehouses, but only for coppice wood.1974, Richard Potts, A Calendar of Cornish Glebe Terriers, 1673-1735, page xviii. From the entry limehouse

Meaning of parish

1. noun An administrative part of a diocese that has its own church.
2. noun The community attending that church; the members of the parish.
3. noun An ecclesiastical society, usually not bounded by territorial limits, but composed of those persons who choose to unite under the charge of a particular priest, clergyman, or minister; also, loosely, the territory in which the members of a congregation live.

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Questions about parish in a sentence

How do you use parish in a sentence?

Parish is used as a noun and verb. For example: “I assisted the ailing vicar in the exercise of his parish duties.”

What is a short sentence with parish?

“He was hunted from the parish.”

What does parish mean?

Parish means an administrative part of a diocese that has its own church.