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

gy; consisting of a peculiar form of words. "This verbal or phraseological answer." Bp. Pearson.

The parson bird.

Authoritative. [Obs.] Bp. Pearson.

Previous administration. Bp. Pearson.

dinary 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.

To prefigure; to exhibit previously in a type. Bp. Pearson.

primitive; fundamental; original. The church of Christ, in its primary institution. Bp. Pearson. These I call original, or primary, qualities of body. Locke.

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

Quality of being first; primitiveness. [Obs.] Bp. Pearson.

dvancing, or issuing; regular, orderly, or ceremonious progress; continuous course. Bp. Pearson. That the procession of their life might be More equable, majestic, pure, and free. Trench.

The office or term of a procurator. Bp. Pearson.

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

The mercy seat; -- so called because a symbol of the propitiated Jehovah. Bp. Pearson.

. -- 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 estate…

. This reason did the ancient fathers render, why the church was called "catholic." Bp. Pearson. Virtue and vice are not arbitrary things; but there is a natural and eternal reason for that goodness and virtue, and against vice and wickedness. Tillotson.

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

One who, or that which, resists. Bp. Pearson.

In a reverse manner; on the other hand; on the opposite. Bp. Pearson.