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Parish vs Borough - What's the difference?

parish | borough |

As nouns the difference between parish and borough

is that parish is in the Anglican, Eastern Orthodox and Roman Catholic Church or certain civil government entities such as the state of Louisiana, an administrative part of a diocese that has its own church while borough is a fortified town.

As a verb parish

is to place (an area, or rarely a person) into one or more parishes.

As a proper noun Borough is

the area, properly called Southwark, just south of London Bridge.

parish

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) paroche, parosse, from (etyl) paroisse, from .

Noun

(wikipedia parish) (es)
  • In the Anglican, Eastern Orthodox and Roman Catholic Church or certain civil government entities such as the state of Louisiana, an administrative part of a diocese that has its own church.
  • * , chapter=7
    • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=With some of it on the south and more of it on the north of the great main thoroughfare that connects Aldgate and the East India Docks, St.?Bede's at this period of its history was perhaps the poorest and most miserable parish in the East End of London.}}
  • The community attending that church; the members of the parish.
  • (US) An ecclesiastical society, usually not bounded by territorial limits, but composed of those persons who choose to unite under the charge of a particular priest, clergyman, or minister; also, loosely, the territory in which the members of a congregation live.
  • A civil subdivision of a British county, often corresponding to an earlier ecclesiastical parish.
  • An administrative subdivision in Louisiana that is equivalent to a county in other U.S. states.
    • Derived terms
    * parishioner * parish church * parish register

    See also

    * parochial

    Verb

    (en-verb)
  • (lb) To place (an area, or rarely a person) into one or more es.
  • * 1917 , Annual Report of the Methodist Episcopal Church, Board of Home Missions and Church Extension, page 70:
  • * 1972 , Winter's Tales from Ireland , volume 2, page 55:
    • Father Malachy, a distant cousin, who was parished somewhere in the depths of Co. Monaghan, sat firmly in the chair in the corner, sipping his tea from a china cup.
  • * 1991', Melissa Bradley Kirkpatrick, ''Re-'''parishing the Countryside: Progressivism and Religious Interests in Rural Life Reform, 1908-1934
  • * 1992 , Parish and town councils in England: a survey , pages 17 and 21:
    • Consequently, approaching half of the non-metropolitan population of England is parished (Table 2.2).
    The South West and East Midlands are also particularly well parished' while the North West, West Midlands and South East are poorly ' parished .
  • * 2011 , Sustainable development in the Localism Bill: third report (ISBN 0215557050), page 5
    • Dr Whitehead: In your written evidence, you have all in different ways made the distinction between NDOs in parished areas and NDOs in non-parished areas,
  • To visit residents of a parish.
  • * 1896 , Mrs. Humphry Ward, Sir George Tressady , volume 1 (ISBN 3842496737):
    • a chair immediately opposite to Tressady's place remained vacant. It was being kept for the eldest son of the house, his mother explaining carelessly to Lord Fontenoy that she believed he was "Out parishing somewhere, as usual."
  • * 1903 , Maxwell Gray, Richard Rosny , page 210:
    • "You will take pleasure in parishing'. Mother used to ' parish ."
    "How do you know I like parishing ?"
    "Your uncle said so."
    "Oh! did he?"
    "And you may like the rectory people; it's a fine old house, and often full of visitors."
  • * 1921 , Margaret Pedler, The Splendid Folly , page 46:
    • "Are you going ‘parishing ’ this morning?" inquired Diana, as she watched him fill and light his pipe.
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    • Etymology 2

    Verb

    (es)

    • borough

    English

    Alternative forms

    * boro

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) A fortified town.
  • (rare) A town or city.
  • A town having a municipal corporation and certain traditional rights.
  • An administrative district in some cities, e.g., London.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
    • , chapter=7 citation , passage=The highway to the East Coast which ran through the borough of Ebbfield had always been a main road and even now, despite the vast garages, the pylons and the gaily painted factory glasshouses which had sprung up beside it, there still remained an occasional trace of past cultures.}}
  • An administrative unit of a city which, under most circumstances according to state or national law, would be considered a larger or more powerful entity; most commonly used in American English to define the five counties that make up New York City.
  • Other similar administrative units in cities and states in various parts of the world.
  • A district in Alaska having powers similar to a county.
  • (historical, British, legal) An association of men who gave pledges or sureties to the king for the good behaviour of each other.
  • (historical, British, legal) The pledge or surety thus given.
    • (Blackstone)
    (Tomlins)
    (Webster 1913)

    Derived terms

    * boroughhood * -borough * municipal borough * parliamentary borough

    Related terms

    * burgh * -bury