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PARSON
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English
English : habitational name from Parr in Lancashire, which was named in Old English with pearr ‘enclosure’.German : from Middle Low German parre ‘parish’, ‘district’, ‘minister’s house’; a metonymic occupational name for a parson or for someone who worked in a parsonage or manse. Compare Pfarr.
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Arabic
Royal Parson
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English
English : from Middle English persone, parsoun ‘parish priest’, ‘parson’ (Old French persone, from Latin persona ‘person’, ‘character’), hence a status name for a parish priest or perhaps a nickname for a devout man. The reasons for the semantic shift from ‘person’ to ‘priest’ are not certain; the most plausible explanation is that the local priest was regarded as the representative person of the parish. The phonetic change from -er- to -ar- was a regular development in Middle English.Americanized form of one or more like-sounding Jewish names.Americanized spelling of Swedish Pärsson, Persson (see Persson).
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English
English : probably an altered spelling of Parsons.
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Indian, Telugu
Caste of Bc; Diamond; Great Parson
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British, English
Minister
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English
English : occupational name for the servant of a parish priest or parson, or a patronymic denoting the child of a parson, from the possessive case of Middle English persone, parsoun (see Parson).English : many early examples are found with prepositions (e.g. Ralph del Persones 1323); these are habitational names, with the omission of house, hence in effect occupational names for servants employed at the parson’s house.Irish : usually of English origin (see above), but sometimes a reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac an Phearsain, which is of Highland Scottish origin (see McPherson).Members of an Irish family called Parsons wre twice created earl of Rosse, first in 1718 and again in 1806. They settled in Ireland c.1590, when two brothers, William and Laurence Parsons, were granted large estates. Birr Castle, Parsonstown, became the family seat. Samuel Holden Parsons, born Lyme, CT, in 1737 was a Connecticut legislator and revolutionary war officer. Theophilius Parsons (1750–1813) was born in Byfield, MA, and was chief justice of the MA supreme court (1806–13); his son, also Theophilius, was a professor at Harvard Law School (1848–1869).
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Scottish
Son of the parson.
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Scottish
Parson.
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English
English : patronymic for the son of a vicar or, perhaps in most cases, an occupational name for the servant of a vicar (see Vicker). In many cases it may represent an elliptical form of a topographic name. Compare Parsons.
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English
English : unexplained; possibly an altered spelling of Parson.German : unexplained.
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Hindu, Indian
Good Parson
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Greek
Shield bearer.
Girl/Female
Indian, Sikh
Blessings of Master
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Arabic
Precious
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Tamil
Mirakeshi | மீராகேஷீ
Name of a Apsara fairy
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Latin
Goddess of shepherds and flocks.
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Bengali, Gujarati, Hindu, Indian, Kannada, Kashmiri, Malayalam, Marathi, Mythological, Oriya, Punjabi, Sanskrit, Sikh, Tamil, Telugu, Traditional
Brother of Lord Rama; Prosperous; Auspicious
Girl/Female
Indian
Friend, Soft hearted, Companion
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Irish
The river Clody runs through County Tipperary and County Wexford and like most Irish rivers is named for a local female deity. Rivers become places for prayer and Clodagh is a popular name in this part of the country.
Girl/Female
Indian, Sanskrit, Tamil
A Ragini; Goddess Saraswati
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Indian
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n.
A rector's mansion; a parsonage house.
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Appropriate to, or like, a parson; -- used in disparagement.
n.
A certain portion of lands, tithes, and offerings, for the maintenance of the parson of a parish.
n.
The parsonage; a clergyman's house.
n.
A queer or odd person or thing; a country parson.
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Of or pertaining to a parson; clerical.
n.
The province of a rector; a parish church, parsonage, or spiritual living, with all its rights, tithes, and glebes.
n.
A person who represents a parish in its ecclesiastical and corporate capacities; hence, the rector or incumbent of a parochial church, who has full possession of all the rights thereof, with the cure of souls.
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Furnished with a parson.
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Admitting the presentation of a clergyman; as, a presentative parsonage.
n.
A parson; the parish priest.
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The parson bird.
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The parson bird.
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Money paid for the support of a parson.
n.
That circuit of ground committed to the charge of one parson or vicar, or other minister having cure of souls therein.
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Alt. of Parsonical
n.
The glebe and house, or the house only, owned by a parish or ecclesiastical society, and appropriated to the maintenance or use of the incumbent or settled pastor.
n.
Any clergyman having ecclesiastical preferment; one who is in orders, or is licensed to preach; a preacher.