different between parish vs synodal

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

synod +? -al

Noun

synodal (plural synodals)

1. A tribute in money formerly paid to the bishop or archdeacon, at the time of his Easter visitation, by every parish priest, now made to the ecclesiastical commissioners; a procuration.
   • 1887, Thomas Gibson, Legends and Historical Notes on Places of North Westmoreland

     synodals, paid to the Bishop of Carlisle every year

2. A constitution made in a provincial or diocesan synod.

Adjective

synodal (not comparable)

1. synodic; relating to a synod

French

Etymology

From Latin synodalis, from Ancient Greek (synodos) 'gathering'; cognate with Dutch synodaal, German synodal etc.

Adjective

synodal (feminine singular synodale, masculine plural synodaux, feminine plural synodales)

1. synodic, pertaining to a synod, notably in ecclesiastic context

Related terms

• synode m
• synodique

Further reading

• “synodal” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

German

Etymology

From Late Latin synod?lis, from synodus, from Ancient Greek ??????? (súnodos, “assembly, meeting”). Cognate with English synodal, Dutch synodaal, French synodal.

Pronunciation

Adjective

synodal

1. synodic, relating to a synod, notably in ecclesiastic context

Related terms

• Synode

Further reading

• “synodal” in Duden online