单词 | priestshire |
释义 | priestshiren. rare (historical in later use). A district served by a priest; a parish. ΘΚΠ society > faith > church government > member of the clergy > priest > kinds of priest > [noun] > parish priest > jurisdiction of or parish priestshireOE church-sokenOE parishc1300 parishenc1400 parishingc1450 cure1480 charge1530 paroece1564 parochrie1581 OE tr. Theodulf of Orleans Capitula (Corpus Cambr.) xiv. 321 Ne spane nan mæssepreost nanne mon of oðre cyrcean hyrnysse to his cyrcan, ne of oðre preostscyre [L. parrochia] lære þæt mon hys cyrcan gesece. 1845 J. Lingard Hist. & Antiq. Anglo-Saxon Church (ed. 3) I. iv. 158 These districts allotted to priests were called priestshires. 1908 T. E. Bridgett Hist. Holy Eucharist in Great Brit. (ed. 2) ii. 62 Secular priests, i.e. priests not under monastic vows, had also the care of districts allotted to them. These districts were called priestshires, shriftshires or kirkshires. 1962 J. Godfrey Church in Anglo-Saxon Eng. 479 Such districts would be known as priestshires rather than parishes, as at this time the term 'parochia' signified the territory of the bishop. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.OE |
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