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Parish
Webster's Dictionary
or (1):
(n.) In Louisiana, a civil division corresponding to a county in other States.
(2):
(n.) The same district, constituting a civil jurisdiction, with its own officers and regulations, as respects the poor, taxes, etc.
(3):
(a.) Of or pertaining to a parish; parochial; as, a parish church; parish records; a parish priest; maintained by the parish; as, parish poor.
(4):
(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.
(5):
(n.) That circuit of ground committed to the charge of one parson or vicar, or other minister having cure of souls therein.
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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Parish'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/web/p/parish.html. 1828.
