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

Person :: Person (n.) A parson; the parish priest.

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

Vestry :: Vestry (n.) A body, composed of wardens and vestrymen, chosen annually by a parish to manage its temporal concerns..

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

Guild :: Guild (v. t.) A religious association or society, organized for charitable purposes or for assistance in parish work..

Perambulate :: Perambulate (v. t.) To walk through or over; especially, to travel over for the purpose of surveying or examining; to inspect by traversing; specifically, to inspect officially the boundaries of, as of a town or parish, by walking over the whole line..

Cure :: Cure (n.) 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..

Parson :: Parson (n.) A person who represents a parish in its ecclesiastical and corporate capacities; hence, the rector or incumbent of a parochial church, who has full possession of all the rights thereof, with the cure of souls..

Wake :: Wake (n.) An annual parish festival formerly held in commemoration of the dedication of a church. Originally, prayers were said on the evening preceding, and hymns were sung during the night, in the church; subsequently, these vigils were discontinued, and the day itself, often with succeeding days, was occupied in rural pastimes and exercises, attended by eating and drinking, often to excess..

Rate :: Rate (n.) A tax or sum assessed by authority on property for public use, according to its income or value; esp., in England, a local tax; as, parish rates; town rates..

Pastoral :: Pastoral (n.) A letter of a pastor to his charge; specifically, a letter addressed by a bishop to his diocese; also (Prot. Epis. Ch.), a letter of the House of Bishops, to be read in each parish..

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..

Installation :: Installation (n.) The act of installing or giving possession of an office, rank, or order, with the usual rites or ceremonies; as, the installation of an ordained minister in a parish..

Belong :: Belong (v. i.) To be native to, or an inhabitant of; esp. to have a legal residence, settlement, or inhabitancy, whether by birth or operation of law, so as to be entitled to maintenance by the parish or town..

Nonage :: Nonage (n.) The ninth part of movable goods, formerly payable to the clergy on the death of persons in their parishes..

Parsonage :: Parsonage (n.) The glebe and house, or the house only, owned by a parish or ecclesiastical society, and appropriated to the maintenance or use of the incumbent or settled pastor..

Parish :: Parish (n.) In Louisiana, a civil division corresponding to a county in other States..

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

Hunt :: Hunt (v. t.) To drive; to chase; -- with down, from, away, etc.; as, to hunt down a criminal; he was hunted from the parish..

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