Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An obsolete form of
parish .
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Examples
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Wiltoun had twelve paroche churches or more, and was the hedde town of
Wanderings in Wessex An Exploration of the Southern Realm from Itchen to Otter Edric Holmes
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On the est suburbe was a paroche church of S. John; and ther yet is a chapel standing.
Wanderings in Wessex An Exploration of the Southern Realm from Itchen to Otter Edric Holmes
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Minister requirit of the Elderis if they knew aney peices of land within the paroche that was calit the goodmane's land or fauld, or dedicated to Satane, or lattine by unlabourit.
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He adds, "the first house of the Egertons is at Egerton, in Malpas paroche."
Collins's peerage of England; genealogical, biographical, and historical 1812
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This phrase originally came from the Anglo-French word ‘paroche,’ which derived from Latin’s ‘parochia’ (from which we also get parochial).
Church or Parish? 2007
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"He caused all persones (parsons) and vicars to remain at their paroche kirks," says Pitscottie, "for the instruction and edifying of their flocks: and caused them preach the Word of God to the people and visit them that were sick; and also the said Bishope visited every kirk within the diocese four times in the year, and preached to the said parochin himself the Word of God, and inquired of them if they were dewly instructed by their parson and vicar, and if the poor were sustained and the youth brought up and learned according to the order that was taine in the house of God."
Royal Edinburgh Her Saints, Kings, Prophets and Poets George Reid 1862
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Saresbyri and Wiltown, for afore Wiltown had 12 paroche churches or more, and was the head of Wilesher. "
From John O'Groats to Land's End Robert Naylor
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Chapel yn the sayd towne, as ys in Newlyn, for theyr paroche Chyrches be more than a mile off. "
The Cornish Riviera Sidney Heath 1907
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"In the paroche church of Saint Brandon, at Branspeth, be dyvers tumbes of the Nevilles.
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