different between parish vs religious

English

Alternative forms

• paroch (Scotland, obsolete)

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?pæ???/, /?p????/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?pæ???/
• Homophone: perish (Mary–marry–merry merger)
• Hyphenation: par?ish

Etymology 1

From Middle English parisshe, from Old French paroisse (compare the obsolete variant paroch, from Anglo-Norman paroche, parosse), from Late Latin parochia, from Ancient Greek ???????? (paroikía, “a dwelling abroad”).

Noun

parish (plural parishes)

1. In the Anglican, Eastern Orthodox, Lutheran and Roman Catholic Church, an administrative part of a diocese that has its own church.
2. The community attending that church; the members of the parish.
3. (US) 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.
4. A civil subdivision of a British county, often corresponding to an earlier ecclesiastical parish.
5. An administrative subdivision in the U.S. state of Louisiana that is equivalent to a county in other U.S. states.

Derived terms

Related terms

• parochial

Translations

Verb

parish (third-person singular simple present parishes, present participle parishing, simple past and past participle parished)

1. (transitive) To place (an area, or rarely a person) into one or more parishes.
   • 1917, Annual Report of the Methodist Episcopal Church, Board of Home Missions and Church Extension, page 70:

     […] [m]akes possible, through the aid of the rural ministers, the development of the various phases of the District program, such as (a) Parishing of the District; (b) Interdenominational adjustment in the interest of rural religious advance […]

   • 1972, Winter's Tales from Ireland, volume 2, page 55:

     Father Malachy, a distant cousin, who was parished somewhere in the depths of Co. Monaghan, sat firmly in the chair in the corner, sipping his tea from a china cup.

   • 1991, Melissa Bradley Kirkpatrick, Re-parishing the Countryside: Progressivism and Religious Interests in Rural Life Reform, 1908-1934
   • 1992, Parish and town councils in England: a survey, pages 17 and 21:

     Consequently, approaching half of the non-metropolitan population of England is parished (Table 2.2).

     […]

     The South West and East Midlands are also particularly well parished while the North West, West Midlands and South East are poorly parished.

   • 2011, Sustainable development in the Localism Bill: third report ?ISBN, page 5

     Dr Whitehead: In your written evidence, you have all in different ways made the distinction between NDOs in parished areas and NDOs in non-parished areas, […]

2. (intransitive) To visit residents of a parish.
   • 1896, Mrs. Humphry Ward, Sir George Tressady, volume 1 ?ISBN:

     […] a chair immediately opposite to Tressady's place remained vacant. It was being kept for the eldest son of the house, his mother explaining carelessly to Lord Fontenoy that she believed he was "Out parishing somewhere, as usual."

   • 1903, Maxwell Gray, Richard Rosny, page 210:

     "You will take pleasure in parishing. Mother used to parish."

     "How do you know I like parishing?"

     "Your uncle said so."

     "Oh! did he?"

     "And you may like the rectory people; it's a fine old house, and often full of visitors."

   • 1921, Margaret Pedler, The Splendid Folly, page 46:

     "Are you going ‘parishing’ this morning?" inquired Diana, as she watched him fill and light his pipe.

Etymology 2

Verb

parish (third-person singular simple present parishes, present participle parishing, simple past and past participle parished)

1. Pronunciation spelling of perish, representing Mary-marry-merry English.

Anagrams

• Phairs, Shairp, raphis

Middle English

Noun

parish

1. Alternative form of parisshe

English

Etymology

From Middle English religiouse, religious, religius, religeous, from Anglo-Norman religieus, religius, from Old French religious, religieux, and their source, Latin religi?sus (“religious, superstitious, conscientious”), from religi?.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /??.?l?.d???s/
• Rhymes: -?d??s

Adjective

religious (comparative more religious, superlative most religious)

1. Concerning religion.

   • The Senators and Representatives before mentioned, and the members of the several State Legislatures, and all executive and judicial Officers, both of the United States and of the several States, shall be bound by Oath or Affirmation, to support this Constitution; but no religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States.

2. Committed to the practice or adherence of religion.

3. Highly dedicated, as one would be to a religion.

Antonyms

• (concerning religion): irreligious, profane, secular, atheistic
• (committed to religion): areligious, irreligious
• (highly dedicated): casual

Derived terms

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Translations

Noun

religious (plural religious or religiouses)

1. A member of a religious order, i.e. a monk or nun.
   • 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin 2010, p. 354:

     Towards the end of the seventh century the monks of Fleury [...] clandestinely excavated the body of Benedict himself, plus the corpse of his even more shadowy sister and fellow religious, Scholastica.

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Further reading

• religious in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• religious in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.