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Of or pertaining to a parish; parochial; as, a parish church; parish records; a parish priest; maintained by the parish; as, parish poor. Dryden. Parish clerk. (a) The clerk or recording officer of a parish. (b) A layman who leads in the responses and otherwise assists in the service of the Church of England. -- Paris…

A parishioner. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Of or pertaining to a parish; parochial. [R.] Bp. Hall.

One who belongs to, or is connected with, a parish.

A parish lying without the walls of, or in a remote part of, a town. Graunt.

To deduct; to omit; as, to abate something from a price. Nine thousand parishes, abating the odd hundreds. Fuller.

An inferior parish officer in England having a variety of duties, as the preservation of order in church service, the chastisement of petty offenders, etc.

bitancy, whether by birth or operation of law, so as to be entitled to maintenance by the parish or town. Bastards also are settled in the parishes to which the mothers belong. Blackstone.

The head or chief of a tithing, or borough (see 2d Borough); the headborough; a parish constable. Spelman.

a pension from the church wardens for being bullbeggar to all the forward children in the parish. Mountfort (1691).

to call, or call off, the items of an account; to call the roll of a military company. No parish clerk who calls the psalm so clear. Gay.

rly 8 a. m. to 12 m.) before and after which marriage can not be legally performed in any parish church. -- Canonical letters, letters of several kinds, formerly given by a dishop to traveling clergymam or laymen, to show that they were entitled to receive the cammunion, and to distinguish them from heretics. -- Cano…

One who receives relief for a night in a parish to which he does not belong; a vagrant.

A chapel or dependent church built for the ease or a accommodation of an increasing parish, or for parishioners who live at a distance from the principal church. (b) A privy. (Law) -- Chapel master, a director of music in a chapel; the director of a court or orchestra. -- To build a chapel (Naut.), to chapel a ship. S…

A church or parish festival (as in commemoration of the dedication of a church), at which much ale was used. Wright. Nares.

A parish officer, being a layman who leads in reading the responses of the Episcopal church service, and otherwise assists in it. [Eng.] Hook. And like unlettered clerk still cry "Amen". Shak.

A feast for the benefit of the parish clerk. [Eng.] T. Warton.

ous; intimate association; nearness; proximity. The convicinity and contiguity of the two parishes. T. Warton.

Immediate vicinity; neighborhood. The convicinity and contiguity of the two parishes. T. Warton.

Spiritual charge; care of soul; the office of a parish priest or of a curate; hence, that which is committed to the charge of a parish priest or of a curate; a curacy; as, to resign a cure; to obtain a cure. The appropriator was the incumbent parson, and had the cure of the souls of the parishioners. Spelman.…