Parch vs Eparch - What's the difference?
parch | eparch |
To burn the surface of, to scorch.
To roast, as dry grain.
* Bible, Leviticus xxiii. 14
To dry to extremity; to shrivel with heat.
(colloquial) To make thirsty.
(archaic) To boil something slowly (Still used in Lancashire in , a type of mushy peas ).
To become superficially burnt; be become sunburned.
The condition of being parched.
* 1982 , (TC Boyle), Water Music , Penguin 2006, p. 64:
(historical, Ancient Greece) The governor or prefect of a province.
The ruler of an eparchy.
(Eastern Orthodoxy) The metropolitan bishop of a province or eparchy.
*2011 , (Norman Davies), Vanished Kingdoms , Penguin 2012, p. 246:
*:An Orthodox eparch , or metropolitan bishop, was installed in Polatsk in 992.
As nouns the difference between parch and eparch
is that parch is the condition of being parched while eparch is (historical|ancient greece) the governor or prefect of a province.As a verb parch
is to burn the surface of, to scorch.parch
English
Verb
- The sun today could parch cement.
- Ye shall eat neither bread, nor parched corn.
- The patient's mouth is parched from fever.
- We're parched , hon. Could you send up an ale from the cooler?
- The locals watched, amused, as the tourists parched in the sun, having neglected to apply sunscreen or bring water.
Noun
(parches)- Yet here he is, not at the head, but somewhere toward the rear of the serpentine queue wending its way through all this parch […].