parochian

comparative more parochian · superlative most parochian

1. obsoleteparochial

   parochian churches

   1604, Francis Bacon, Certain Considerations touching the better pacification and Edification of the Church of England

plural parochians

1. obsoleteA parishioner.

   If the Lord of a Mannor claim the Tythes of such Lands in D. to finde a Chaplain in D. and the Parochians claim them also for the same purpose , ' tis said for Law, that the Lay Court shall have jurisdiction betwixt them, and not the Spiritual Court

   1578, Robert Brooke, New Cases in the time of Henry VIII