Word Meanings - PARSONISH - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Appropriate to, or like, a parson; -- used in disparagement.

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• APPROPRIATENESS
  The state or quality of being appropriate; peculiar fitness. Froude.
• DISPARAGEMENT
  1. Matching any one in marriage under his or her degree; injurious union with something of inferior excellence; a lowering in rank or estimation. And thought that match a foul disparagement. Spenser. 2. Injurious comparison with an inferior; a
• APPROPRIATE
  Set apart for a particular use or person. Hence: Belonging peculiarly; peculiar; suitable; fit; proper. In its strict and appropriate meaning. Porteus. Appropriate acts of divine worship. Stillingfleet. It is not at all times easy to find words
• PARSONIC; PARSONICAL
  Of or pertaining to a parson; clerical. Vainglory glowed in his parsonic heart. Colman. -- Par*son"ic*al*ly, adv.
• PARSONISH
  Appropriate to, or like, a parson; -- used in disparagement.
• PARSON
  A person who represents a parish in its ecclesiastical and corporate capacities; hence, the rector or incumbent of a parochial church, who has full possession of all the rights thereof, with the cure of souls. 2. Any clergyman having ecclesiastical
• PARSONED
  Furnished with a parson.
• PARSONAGE
  A certain portion of lands, tithes, and offerings, for the maintenance of the parson of a parish. 2. The glebe and house, or the house only, owned by a parish or ecclesiastical society, and appropriated to the maintenance or use of the incumbent
• APPROPRIATELY
  In an appropriate or proper manner; fitly; properly.
• UNAPPROPRIATE
  1. Inappropriate; unsuitable. 2. Not appropriated. Bp. Warburton.
• DISAPPROPRIATE
  Severed from the appropriation or possession of a spiritual corporation. The appropriation may be severed, and the church become disappropriate, two ways. Blackstone.
• MISAPPROPRIATE
  To appropriate wrongly; to use for a wrong purpose.
• UNAPPROPRIATED
  1. Not specially appropriate; having not special application. J. Warton. 2. Not granted to any person, corporation, or the like, to the exclusion of others; as, unappropriated lands. 3. Not granted for, or applied to, any specific purpose; as,
• IMPARSONEE
  Presented, instituted, and inducted into a rectory, and in full possession. -- n.
• INAPPROPRIATE
  Not instrument ; not appropriate; unbecoming; unsuitable; not specially fitted; -- followed by to or for. -- In`ap*pro"pri*ate*ly, adv. -- In`ap*pro"pri*ate*ness, n.