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单词 to go upon the parish
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to go upon the parish
4. intransitive. To be chargeable to. Later only in to go upon the parish: (of a person) to be financially dependent on parish relief; to be destitute; cf. on (also upon) the parish at parish n. Phrases. Now historical and rare.
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1660 A. Marvell Let. 17 Nov. in Poems & Lett. (1971) II. 2 All things are to go upon his Majestyes own purse.
1818 Bury & Norwich Post 11 Nov. 1/2 His family must go upon the parish or positively starve.
1840 E. S. Thomas Reminisc. Last 65 Years II. 41 His wife and children were discharged from their employment, and went upon the parish.
1901 S. P. Rice Occas. Ess. Native South Indian Life ii. 35 We all know the dread an old couple have to ‘go upon the parish’.
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