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priest-shire Hist. rare. [repr. OE. préostscír, f. préost, priest n. + scír, shire.] A district to which a priest ministered: a term equivalent to ‘parish’.
c1000Eccles. Inst. c. 14 in Thorpe Anc. Laws II. 410 Ne spane nan mæsse-preost nanne mon of oðre cyrcean hyrnysse to his cyrcan, ne of oðre preost-scyre lære, þæt mon hys cyrcan ᵹesece. 1844Lingard Anglo-Sax. Ch. (1858) I. iv. 144 note, These districts allotted to priests were called priestshires. |