parish: [13] The etymological notion underlying parish is of ‘living nearby’. It comes via Old French paroisse and late Latin parochia (source of English parochial [14]) from late Greek paroikíā. This was a derivative of pároikos ‘living near’, a compound formed from pará ‘beside’ and oikos ‘house’ (source of English economy).
Scholars have not been able to agree on precisely how the idea of ‘living nearby’ became transmuted into that of the ‘parish’: some consider the central concept to be of a ‘community of neighbours’, while others view the ‘near-dweller’ here not as a permanent neighbour but as a temporary ‘sojourner’ or ‘stranger’, an epithet applied to early Christians. => economy, parochial
parish (n.)
c. 1300, "district with its own church; members of such a church," from Anglo-French paroche, parosse (late 11c.), Old French paroisse, from Late Latin parochia "a diocese," alteration of Late Greek paroikia "a diocese or parish," from paroikos "a sojourner" (in Christian writers), in classical Greek, "neighbor," from para- "near" (see para- (1)) + oikos "house" (see villa).
Sense development unclear, perhaps from "sojourner" as epithet of early Christians as spiritual sojourners in the material world. In early Church writing the word was used in a more general sense than Greek dioikesis, though by 13c. they were synonymous. Replaced Old English preostscyr, literally "priest-shire."
双语例句
1. Parish priests have referred to it in their sermons.
堂区牧师在布道中提到了它。
来自柯林斯例句
2. His superiors moved him to another parish.
上级把他派往另一个教区。
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3. The priest visited all the old people in the parish.
牧师探望了教区里的所有老人.
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4. A memorial service was held yesterday at Wadhurst Parish Church. The Rev Michael Inch officiated.
昨天，悼念仪式在沃德赫斯特堂区教堂举行，迈克尔·英奇牧师担任主持。
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5. He became a rector of a small parish where he ministered for several years.
