What's the difference between parsonage and vicar?

Parsonage


Definition:

  • (n.) A certain portion of lands, tithes, and offerings, for the maintenance of the parson of a parish.
  • (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.
  • (n.) Money paid for the support of a parson.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) This led to recognize the nosological relationships of these atypical cases with Parsonage-Turner's syndrome and to emphasize the similarities with Guillain-Barré syndrome.
  • (2) I decide to visit Saint Central - the parsonage museum at Haworth - to see if anything of the real Charlotte remains.
  • (3) Only five cases could be considered as definite Parsonage Turner's "shoulder girdle" syndrome.
  • (4) A recent proposal (Maggio, M. B., Pagan, J., Parsonage, D., Hatch, L., and Senior, A. E. (1987) J. Biol.
  • (5) The low Km for nitrate observed in the duriquinol assay is comparable with the apparent Km(NO-3) recently reported for intact cells of P. denitrificans [Parsonage, D., Greenfield, A. J.
  • (6) A 73-year-old women presented with a recurrent form of sporadic brachial plexus neuropathy, the so-called Parsonage and Turner syndrome.
  • (7) A previously healthy 38-year-old man presented a typical Parsonage-Turner syndrome (PTS) three weeks after a cold and unusual muscular exercise.
  • (8) Overall, the data give strong support to previously proposed mechanisms of unisite catalysis, steady-state catalysis, and energy coupling in F1-ATPases (Al-Shawi, M. K., Parsonage, D. and Senior, A. E. (1990) J. Biol.
  • (9) Recognising the implications of this, at the Church of England we have begun to put our own houses in order – churches, schools, halls and parsonages - through our Shrinking the Footprint campaign .
  • (10) She has been chained, weeping, to a radiator in the Haworth Parsonage, Yorkshire, for too long.
  • (11) The authors have analyzed the anamnestic, clinical and laboratory data in 44 patients with Parsonage-Turner syndrome.
  • (12) Comparison of the fluxes of enzyme-bound species detected experimentally in the presence of 2 mM phosphate with those predicted by computer simulation of published rate constants determined for uni-site catalysis (Al-Shawi, M.D., Parsonage, D. and Senior, A.E.
  • (13) The collection and assessment of more evidence is needed before Parsonage and Neuburger's proposition can be supported.
  • (14) This case report suggests that giant cell arteritis be considered in the investigation of the Parsonage and Turner syndrome.
  • (15) From 1971 to 1983 we observed 58 cases of the Parsonage-Turner syndrome.
  • (16) Pictures of the "Brontë waterfall" are gushing noisily over the front of the parsonage.
  • (17) Two typical cases of Parsonage-Turner syndrome with reflex sympathetic dystrophy syndrome and adhesive capsulitis of the shoulder are reported.
  • (18) Paralytic brachial neuritis or Parsonage-Turner syndrome principally involves the shoulder girdle, rarely muscles moving the hand and fingers.
  • (19) These effects are discussed in terms of a structural model of the catalytic nucleotide-binding domain of beta-subunit proposed recently (Duncan, T.M., Parsonage, D., and Senior, A.E.
  • (20) I’d encourage people to visit Haworth and the Brontë Parsonage Museum , which was the lifelong family home of the Brontës.

Vicar


Definition:

  • (n.) One deputed or authorized to perform the functions of another; a substitute in office; a deputy.
  • (n.) The incumbent of an appropriated benefice.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The statutory age of retirement for clergy is 70, although vicars’ terms can be extended by his or her bishop.
  • (2) Rev Andrew Foreshew-Cain, vicar of St James church in West Hampstead, London, who last month became the second Church of England priest to marry his same sex partner , said on Twitter that the treatment of Pemberton was "further evidence of the profound homophobia at the heart of the church" .
  • (3) An alliance of Church of England parishes meeting this week for the first time could be the first step towards a split, the vicar leading the talks has suggested.
  • (4) "Well, it was quite an education for me, whose grandparents on both sides had been vicars."
  • (5) While Auden and Britten are much grander characters than, say, Maggie Smith's nervy vicar's wife in Bed Among the Lentils or Thora Hird's Doris in A Cream Cracker Under the Settee trying to stave off the care home, they share the same disappointments – loneliness, self-doubt, age.
  • (6) The curveball came when he shared vocal duties on Live Forever with Martin, whom he has variously compared unfavourably with a vicar, a geography teacher and a presenter of the children’s TV show The Tweenies.
  • (7) And yet the vicar of HTB, Nicky Gumbel , is almost certainly a more influential figure in England than Welby, his notional boss.
  • (8) The unresolved problem, as King complained a year ago at Mansion House, was that the Bank had become like a vicar whose congregation attends weddings and burials but ignores the sermons in between.
  • (9) My husband went to see the local vicar, who lives in a modest vicarage beside the old one, and met there other neighbours from nearby streets.
  • (10) One encounters these inner-city vicars who don't seem to mind what you believe – some will even say that the resurrection is but a metaphor – but don't be fooled.
  • (11) Journalists remind us that the prime minister is a vicar’s daughter.
  • (12) A vicar of Waresley used to visit this wood every week for divine inspiration, walking the paths, writing sermons in his head.
  • (13) It may not be the funniest TV show ever created, but it is substantially funnier than My Hero, The Kevin Bishop Show, My Family, The High Life, Waiting For God, Keeping Up Appearances, The Thin Blue Line, 3 Non Blondes, Touch Me I'm Karen Taylor, Plus One, Grownups, Little Miss Jocelyn, Early Doors, The Sketch Show, Outnumbered, The In-Betweeners, Katy Brand's Big Ass Show, Gimme Gimme Gimme, Hyperdrive, The Vicar Of Dibley, Ideal, Benidorm, and Still Game, and nobody bangs on about how bad they are.
  • (14) They came from all walks of life – we had shop workers, property developers, a single mother, even a vicar, which I did think was strange.
  • (15) A vicar once explained to me that the reason the congregation stands for much of the music at Evensong is that, "It's not a concert."
  • (16) P Hunt, who went to Vicars Hill school in Boldre, may not realise it, but his 'HISTRY' exercise book is now in the British Library.
  • (17) Welby, an Eton-educated former oil industry executive who joined the church as a vicar in Warwickshire, will be enthroned at Canterbury cathedral in front of 2,000 guests, including Prince Charles and the prime minister, David Cameron.
  • (18) When you finish eighth in a byelection on 451 votes, behind a local vicar and self-styled "White Knight", where are you?
  • (19) May, the provincial vicar’s daughter, has done her time tramping the streets, stuffing envelopes, working the local Conservative association circuit.
  • (20) In his memoir , Brown’s former aide Damian McBride candidly describes the thrill of having the ear of one of the most powerful men in the land – though he confesses the prime minister would “stare at [him] sullenly for a moment or two, then say: ‘Get me Ed Balls.’” I certainly met plenty of chiefs of staff and spin doctors who jealously guarded their privileged access to a particular politician and their status as that MP’s “vicar on Earth”.

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