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That circuit of ground committed to the charge of one parson or vicar, or other minister having cure of souls therein. Cowell.

A parsonage; -- so called in some Baptist churches. [Southern U. S.]

A parson; the parish priest. [Obs.] Chaucer.

The parson bird.

rdinary as a candidate for institution. The patron of a church may present his clerk to a parsonage or vicarage; that is, may offer him to the bishop of the diocese to be instituted. Blackstone.

Admitting the presentation of a clergyman; as, a presentative parsonage. Spelman.

uit; the first year's whole profit of an ecclesiastical preferment. The primitias of your parsonage. Spenser.

consideration for it, or the corresponding duty of the party to whom it is made. Chitty. Parsons. Burrill.

r. -- Real composition (Eccl. Law), an agreement made between the owner of lands and the parson or vicar, with consent of the ordinary, that such lands shall be discharged from payment of tithes, in consequence of other land or recompense given to the parson in lieu and satisfaction thereof. Blackstone. -- Real estat…

The province of a rector; a parish church, parsonage, or spiritual living, with all its rights, tithes, and glebes.

A queer or odd person or thing; a country parson. [Slang, Obs.] Swift.

or want of perceiving the connection of two ideas. Locke. Some stick not to say, that the parson and attorney forged a will. Arbuthnot.

The parson bird.