单词 | parish councillor |
释义 | parish councillorparish councilorn. A member of a parish council. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > deliberative, legislative, or administrative assembly > local government body > [noun] > member of local government council > parish councillor parish councillor1873 1873 Tablet 17 May 622/1 No Catholic vestrymen or parish councillors can lend themselves to the blasphemous farce of such appointments of ‘priests not affected by the provisions of the law’. 1893 Times 27 Mar. 8/1 [From the Local Government Bill] The parish councillors shall be elected by the parochial electors of the parish. 1957 M. Savill tr. A. Pirro J. S. Bach i. 44 The parish councilors preferred the sweet ring of coins to the art of a master organist. 1992 Independent 6 May 1/4–5 The parish councillors..were concerned about strangers knocking on villagers' doors asking to use their telephones. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1873 |
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