Definition:
- (n.) That circuit of ground committed to the charge of one parson or vicar, or other minister having cure of souls therein.
- (n.) The same district, constituting a civil jurisdiction, with its own officers and regulations, as respects the poor, taxes, etc.
- (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.
- (n.) In Louisiana, a civil division corresponding to a county in other States.
- (a.) Of or pertaining to a parish; parochial; as, a parish church; parish records; a parish priest; maintained by the parish; as, parish poor.
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