Reverse Dictionary: PARISH

ADJECTIVES
► PARISHIONAL pert. to a parish → 1604 obs.
► PAROCHIAL pert. to a parish → 1393
► PAROCHIALITY the state of being parochial → 1769
► PAROCHIAN pert. to a parish → 1300 obs.

NOUNS
► PAROCHIN ► PAROCHINE a parish → 1500 Sc. obs.
► PAROCHRIE a parochial area; a parish → 1581 Sc. obs.
► PAROECE a parish → 1564 obs.

NOUNS – PERSON
► AMEN-BAWLER a parish clerk → 19C Eng. sl.
► AMEN-CLERK a parish clerk → 1636 Eng. dial. obs.
► AMEN-CURLER a parish clerk → 1791 sl.
► BANG-BEGGAR a constable or beadle; a parish officer; a person who kept off noisy intruders during church time → 1715 Eng. dial.
► BEADLE an inferior parish officer appointed by the vestry to keep  order in church, punish petty offenders, and act as the servitor or messenger of the parish generally; a parish constable → 1594
► CALEB QUOTEM ► CALEB QUOTUM a parish clerk → c1860 sl.
► CANTICLE a parish clerk → 1785 sl.
► CHUCK-FARTHING a parish clerk → 1698 sl.
► HEADBOROUGH orig. the head of a tithing, or frank-pledge; later, a parish officer identical in functions with the petty constable → c1440
► MERESMAN a parish officer who attends to the roads, bridges, and watercourses → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► PARISHEEN a child brought up by the parish → L19 Irish
► PARISHEN ► PARISHION one of the community of a parish → 1225 obs.
► PAROCHIAN an inhabitant of a parish; a parishioner → 1357 obs.
► PAROECIAN a parish priest → 1725 obs.
► SCOURGER one employed to keep sturdy beggars out of a parish → 1904 Sc. obs. (Bk.)
► SOL-FA a parish clerk → L18 sl.

VERBS
► PAROCHIALIZE to do parish work; to work a parish → 1871