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Parochially :: Parochially (adv.) In a parochial manner; by the parish, or by parishes..

Tithingman :: Tithingman (n.) A parish officer elected annually to preserve good order in the church during divine service, to make complaint of any disorderly conduct, and to enforce the observance of the Sabbath..

Clerk :: Clerk (n.) A parish officer, being a layman who leads in reading the responses of the Episcopal church service, and otherwise assists in it..

Mortuary :: Mortuary (a.) A sort of ecclesiastical heriot, a customary gift claimed by, and due to, the minister of a parish on the death of a parishioner. It seems to have been originally a voluntary bequest or donation, intended to make amends for any failure in the payment of tithes of which the deceased had been guilty..

Vestry :: Vestry (n.) A room appendant to a church, in which sacerdotal vestments and sacred utensils are sometimes kept, and where meetings for worship or parish business are held; a sacristy; -- formerly called revestiary..

Glebe :: Glebe (n.) The land belonging, or yielding revenue, to a parish church or ecclesiastical benefice..

Settle :: Settle (n.) To establish in the pastoral office; to ordain or install as pastor or rector of a church, society, or parish; as, to settle a minister..

Parish :: Parish (n.) The same district, constituting a civil jurisdiction, with its own officers and regulations, as respects the poor, taxes, etc..

Parish :: Parish (n.) That circuit of ground committed to the charge of one parson or vicar, or other minister having cure of souls therein..

Clerk-ale :: Clerk-ale (n.) A feast for the benefit of the parish clerk.

Settlement :: Settlement (n.) A settled place of abode; residence; a right growing out of residence; legal residence or establishment of a person in a particular parish or town, which entitles him to maintenance if a pauper, and subjects the parish or town to his support..

Outdweller :: Outdweller (n.) One who holds land in a parish, but lives elsewhere..

Pope :: Pope (n.) A parish priest, or a chaplain, of the Greek Church..

Parish :: Parish (n.) 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..

Parsonage :: Parsonage (n.) A certain portion of lands, tithes, and offerings, for the maintenance of the parson of a parish..

Parishen :: Parishen (n.) A parishioner.

Heritor :: Heritor (n.) A proprietor or landholder in a parish.

Institutor :: Institutor (n.) A presbyter appointed by the bishop to institute a rector or assistant minister over a parish church.

Precinct :: Precinct (n.) A parish or prescribed territory attached to a church, and taxed for its support..

Perambulation :: Perambulation (n.) An annual survey of boundaries, as of town, a parish, a forest, etc..

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