parish priest
The priest in charge of a parish.
| a 1300 Cursor M. 26173 (Cott.) To þi pariche preist þou þe bede. c 1491 Chast. Goddes Chyld. 29 Neyther to the pope..ne to the parysshe prest. 1504 in Eng. Gilds (1870) 282 Who-so-euer be person, vycary, or parasche prest. 1659 Howell Lexicon, Eng. Prov. 1 The Parish-Priest forgot that he was ever a Clark. 1865 S. Austin Ranke's Hist. Ref. II. 83 The parish priest of Cronach was one of the first who married. |