| 单词 | parish register |
| 释义 | > as lemmasparish register parish register n. †(a) the registrar of a parish (obsolete); (b) a book recording the christenings, marriages, and burials taking place in a parish church. ΘΚΠ society > faith > church government > laity > lay functionaries > registrar > [noun] parish register1653 society > faith > artefacts > book (general) > other books > [noun] > parish register parish book1594 church book1596 church register1606 parish register1653 vestry-book1773 1653 Acts & Ordin. Parl. (Scobell) c. 6. 237 Some able and honest person..to have the Keeping of the said Book [sc. a Register of Marriages, Births, and Burials], and the person so elected, approved and sworn, shall be called the Parish-Register. 1713 H. Prideaux Direct. Church-wardens (ed. 3) 93 The Parish-Register is a Parchment Book, in which all the Christnings, Marriages, and Burials of the Parish are Recorded. This was first ordered by the Lord Vicegerent Cromwell,..1538. 1822 Ld. Byron Let. 19 Dec. (1980) X. 63 I suspect that temperance is a more effective medicine at twenty than at thirty... Oh Parish Register!—Oh Peerage why?—Record those years that I would fain deny? 1987 D. Hey Family Hist. & Local Hist. in Eng. 104 The Sedgley parish registers..demonstrate the continuity of family involvement in scythemaking, lockmaking and nailing. < as lemmas |
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