Crossword-Solution: PARISH
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Parish | n. | That circuit of ground committed to the charge of one parson or vicar, or other minister having cure of souls therein. |
| Parish | n. | The same district, constituting a civil jurisdiction, with its own officers and regulations, as respects the poor, taxes, etc. |
| 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. |
| Parish | n. | In Louisiana, a civil division corresponding to a county in other States. |
| Parish | a. | Of or pertaining to a parish; parochial; as, a parish church; parish records; a parish priest; maintained by the parish; as, parish poor. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| PARISH | anagram | HISPAR, SHAIRP |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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Sentences with PARISH (5)
She may have perceived the direction of his face, for she said coaxingly,— “You won’t say anything in the parish about having seen me here, will you—at least, not for a day or two?” “I won’t if you wish me not to,” said Oak.
The church stood there because the land was given to the parish by the man who owned the adjoining waste lots, in the hope of making them more salable—“Farrier’s Addition,” this patch of prairie was called in the clerk’s office.
His close-shaven crown, surrounded by a circle of stiff curled black hair, had something the appearance of a parish pinfold begirt by its high hedge.
His surname was Cruncher, and on the youthful occasion of his renouncing by proxy the works of darkness, in the easterly parish church of Hounsditch, he had received the added appellation of Jerry.
Sewell with patronising affection, and bade him come to him if he ever got into a tight place with his parish work; he would let him have all the money he wanted; he had more money than he knew what to do with.
Quotes with PARISH (3)
Jude leaped out of arm's reach, and walked along the trackway weeping--not from the pain, though that was keen enough; not from the perception of the flaw in the terrestrial scheme, by which what was good for God's birds was bad for God's gardener; but with the awful sense that he had wholly disgraced himself before he had been a year in the parish, and hence might be a burden to his great-aunt for life.
Frail to the point of invalidism, without family and with nothing to look forward to, she [Mlle Muguette] yet contrived to be happy. How strange a thing is happiness! Mlle Pimpalet, the notary's wife, arrogantly middle-class, well-furnished with the goods of this world, cared for and waited on, yet invariably looked as if she had been given rat poison for breakfast. While Muguette with nothing, almost on the parish, was radiant with carefree joyousness. Her courage almost made people want to kiss her.
And, for one — ten thousandth of a second, all of it fell away, the despair and grief and anger and pain and hunger, and the old Ben Parish rose from the dead. The eyes that impaled. The smile that slayed. In another moment, he would fade, slide back into the new Ben, the one called Zombie, and I understood something I hadn’t before: He was dead, the object of my schoolgirl desires, just as the schoolgirl who desired him was dead.
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Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NYT, Onion, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 64 times in crossword archives (1950–2024).