| 单词 | on the parish |
| 释义 | > as lemmason (also upon) the parish on (also upon) the parish: (originally) receiving parish relief (now historical); (hence) destitute, dependent on charity or state support. Esp. in to go (also come, fall, be sent, etc.) on the parish. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > poverty > be poor [verb (intransitive)] > receive poor relief to live on the alms-basket1598 to go (also come, fall, be sent, etc.) on the parisha1637 to take collection1670 to come (also go, fall, be flung, etc.) upon the town1836 the mind > possession > poverty > in impoverished state [phrase] > in receipt of relief on (also upon) the parisha1637 in collection1702 upon (also on) the town1783 a1637 N. Ferrar Story Bks. Little Gidding (1899) 219 That a Father should leave his children on the Parish through..unthriftines. 1677 A. Yarranton England's Improvem. 150 Consider that Bank-Granaries..will be the occasion of taking infinite poor people off the Parish, and prevent others falling upon the Parish. 1692 King James II in C. Petrie Jacobite Movement (1932) App. 296 Leaving their Children on the parish. 1731 Flying Post 12 Aug. 2/2 His Mother, who was maintain'd by his Labour, being come upon the Parish, is sent to the Work-house at Wandsworth. 1749 J. Cleland Mem. Woman of Pleasure II. 218 His parents, honest and fail'd mechanicks, had, by the best traces he could get of them, left him an infant orphan on the parish. 1830 Examiner 803/2 He shall either go upon the parish or starve. 1861 ‘G. Eliot’ Silas Marner i. 9 It was in the nature of a stroke to partly take away the use of a man's limbs and throw him on the parish, if he'd got no children to look to. 1890 F. W. Robinson Very Strange Family 6 The boy will certainly be sent to the parish, if you don't pay for him. 1990 Observer 27 May 8/7 A rescue scheme to keep mortgage defaulters from ‘going on the parish’ will be launched during National Housing Week. < as lemmas |
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