parochian

English

Etymology

Latin parochianus.

Adjective

parochian (comparative more parochian, superlative most parochian)

  1. (obsolete) parochial
    • Francis Bacon
      parochian churches

Noun

parochian (plural parochians)

  1. (obsolete) A parishioner.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Ld. Burleigh to this entry?)

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for parochian in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Anagrams

Middle English

Noun

parochian

  1. Alternative form of parisshen
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