Temple vs Parish - What's the difference?
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A building for worship.
(often, capitalized) The Jewish temple of Jerusalem, first built by Solomon.
Something regarded as holding religious presence.
Something of importance; something attended to.
(obsolete) A body.
* 1602 , (William Shakespeare), , act 1, scene 3, lines 11–14:
Hands held together with forefingers outstretched and touching pad to pad, with the rest of the fingers clasped.
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To build a temple for; to appropriate a temple to.
(anatomy) The slightly flatter region, on either side of the head, back of the eye and forehead, above the zygomatic arch and in front of the ear.
(ophthalmology) Either of the sidepieces on a set of spectacles, extending backwards from the hinge toward the ears and, usually, turning down around them.
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.
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, title= 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.
(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:
* 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:
* 2011 , Sustainable development in the Localism Bill: third report (ISBN 0215557050), page 5
To visit residents of a parish.
* 1896 , Mrs. Humphry Ward, Sir George Tressady , volume 1 (ISBN 3842496737):
* 1903 , Maxwell Gray, Richard Rosny , page 210:
* 1921 , Margaret Pedler, The Splendid Folly , page 46:
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In transitive terms the difference between temple and parish
is that temple is to build a temple for; to appropriate a temple to while parish is to place (an area, or rarely a person) into one or more parishes.As a proper noun Temple
is a given name derived from Latin.temple
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) temple, from (etyl) templ, from (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- The temple of Zeus was very large.
- My body is my temple.
- For nature crescent does not grow alone
- In thews and bulks, but as this temple waxes,
- The inward service of the mind and soul
- Grows wide withal.
Synonyms
* house of worshipDerived terms
* templelike * Temple Mount * Temple of Heaven * temple of immensityVerb
(templ)- to temple a god
- (Feltham)
Etymology 2
From (etyl) temple, from (etyl) temple, from (etyl) (see "temporal bone" )Noun
(en noun)Etymology 3
From (etyl) ; compare templet and template.External links
* *Anagrams
* ----parish
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) paroche, parosse, from (etyl) paroisse, from .Noun
(wikipedia parish) (es)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.}}
Derived terms
* parishioner * parish church * parish registerSee also
* parochialVerb
(en-verb)- 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.
- 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 .
- 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,
- 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."
- "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."
- "Are you going ‘parishing ’ this morning?" inquired Diana, as she watched him fill and light his pipe.