Middle English Dictionary Entry
parish(e prẹ̄st n.
Entry Info
| Forms | parish(e prẹ̄st n. Also (errors) parichsprest & paro prest. |
| Etymology | From parish(e n. & prẹ̄st n. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) The priest administering a parish, the incumbent of a parish; (b) as surname.
Associated quotations
a
- (1357) Gaytr.LFCatech.(Yk-Borth R.I.11)22/66 : Parsons and vikers and al paroche prestes Enquere diligently of thair sugettes in the lentyn tyme.
- c1390 Bi a wode (Vrn)54 : Ȝif þou haue don a dedly synne..a Frere þou wolt hent, Þi parisch prest [vr. paresche prest] for schame forsake.
- (c1390) Chaucer CT.ML.(Manly-Rickert)B.1166 : Sire, parisshe prest..for goddes bones, Tel vs a tale.
- a1400(c1303) Mannyng HS (Hrl 1701)11605 : Þy parysshe preste [F prestre parochien]..þy parsone or vycary..þese haue of þy soule maystry.
- a1400(a1325) Cursor (Vsp A.3)26173 : Quen þou o scrift has nede, To þi pariche preist [Frf: paresshe prest] þou þe bede.
- c1400(a1376) PPl.A(1) (Trin-C R.3.14)prol.78 : Þe parissh prest [vr. parichsprest] & þe pardoner parte þe siluer Þat þe pore peple of þe parissh shulde haue ȝif þei ne were.
- c1400(a1376) PPl.A(1) (Trin-C R.3.14)80 : Personis & parissh prestis [C: parsheprestes] pleynide hem to here bisshop Þat here parissh was pore siþþe þe pestilence tyme.
- c1400(c1378) PPl.B (LdMisc 581)20.317 : I wote no better leche Than persoun or parissh prest, penytancere or bisshop, Saue Piers þe plowman.
- (1402) Topias (Dgb 41)p.72 : Jakke, if thou undirstonde no Latyn, go to thi paroche prest.
- (1419) *Will Bury155 : Also I be qweþe þe parysch Prest of seynt Jamys ij s.
- a1425(?a1400) RRose (Htrn 409)6384 : Man and wyf Shulde shewe her paroch-prest her lyf, Onys a yeer.
- a1425 Cursor (Glb E.9)29541 : Of a prest assoylid be Þat power has to vnbind þe..Als person, vicare or parisch preste.
- (a1438) MKempe A (Add 61823)163/13 : Hir confessowr, parisch preste of Seynt Margaretys Cherche, toke þe precyows Sacrament & went be-forn þe fyer.
- (1444) Will Daubeney in Som.RS 19340 : Item, to the parissh prest of Baryngton to pray for me y wol to have vj s. viij d.
- (1446) *Dec.Guilt Coventry (Cleo E.3) : Alonely they that mynistren the sacramentes and mynistren aboute the corpses, as vicairs and parisshprestes, shuld haue the obvenciones and profites of the corpses.
- c1460(a1449) Lydg.St.Austin (Hrl 2255)145 : The parissh preest..Besouhte hym meekly that he wolde of grace Here his compleynt.
- a1450(c1400) Wor.Serm.(Wor F.10)60/328 : The schalt, mor-ouer, whan þe schriueste te, go to him þat hath cure o þi sowle, as to þi paro prest [?read: paroch prest], þi person or þi pentauncer', & to no ronners ouer cuntreys.
- a1450(a1401) Chastising GC (Bod 505)140/22 : Bi alle þese opynions þei wolde stond free, ȝeuynge obedience to no man, neiþer to pope ne to cardinal, to þe bisshop ne to þe parishe prist.
- a1450 PPl.B (Corp-O 201)5.105 : Parshȝ prest [Ld: I come to þe kirke..And preye for þe pople, as þe prest techeth].
- c1450 Dives & P.(Lchf 35)1.45 : What a parysch preest or an annuellere schulde take be ȝere.
- (1454) Deed Yks.in YASRS 65125 : The sayd partys were put in compremysse tobyd the ordenaunce and awarde of John Lacy and Thomas Strenger, paryssh prest of Eland.
- (1467) Acc.St.John Peterb.in Antiq.51463 : Also delyvered to Renold Merbury and Willm Glynton to pay Syr Wyllm Kysby for ij rochets to the parych prest and clerk, v s. vj d.
- a1500(1465) Leversedge Vision (Add 34193)33 : Ther beth..iij other prestis: the parish preest and ij other chapleyns.
b
- (1318) Pat.R.Edw.II185 : Robert le Parischprest.
- (1357) in Thuresson ME Occup.Terms170 : Thom. le Parischprest.