parochiallyadv.

1646 R. Overton Ordinance for Tythes Dismounted 3 That wee may the better make tryall hereof, it is to be considered, that the Clergy of this Kingdome doe Parochially Officiate therein as the Ministers of Jesus Christ.

1690 E. Stillingfleet Charge to Clergy 40 By the Fourth Council of Toledo, the Bishop was to Visit his whole Diocess, Parochially, every Year.

1732 D. Neal Hist. Puritans I. v. 308 Parker directed a special Commission to Commissaries of his own appointing, to visit his Diocese parochially.

1840 J. H. Newman Let. to F. Rogers 21 Mar. I have little or nothing to do at Oxford parochially, and a great deal at Littlemore.

1894 Polit. Sci. Q. 9 79 This was assessed and levied parochially by the churchwardens.

1929 S. Leslie Anglo-Catholic xiii. 182 He could never tell the truth to his father, since the Canon had parochially decreed that his cryptic daughter-in-law was no fit person to live in the parish.

1971 Daily Tel. 19 June 15/1 This [tax] relief has been very limited in its scope and I doubt whether its passing will be more than parochially mourned.

2003 Age (Melbourne) (Nexis) 24 Sept. a4 Like most elitist professions, the architecture fraternity in Melbourne is notoriously competitive, parochially spiteful and glad of opportunities to cannibalise its own.