† ˈparishing north. Eng. Obs.
[f. parish n. + (app.) -ing1; but nature and function of the suffix not clear.]
= parish. (Chiefly Yorksh.)
(It is not certain that quot. c 1450 belongs here.)
| c 1450 Bidding Prayer in Lay Folk's Mass Bk. 71 We sall pray also for all women þat er bun with childer in þis parichin. 1486 in Surtees Misc. (1888) 48 A gentilman borne in the parishing of Estrington. 1511 Test. Ebor. (Surtees) V. 24 To the well of my parishyng iij.s. iiij.d. 1524 Knaresborough Wills (Surtees) I. 19, I, William Hall of the paryshynge of Pannall. 1584 Ibid. 145 My neighbours and poure of the parishing. |