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Paris(c)hin, -on, n. Also: parysch-, parich-, parrich-; perish-, perrych-; paris-, parys-, pares-, parris-, parres-; peris(s)-, peres- and -ine, -yn(e, -en, -one, -oun, -ane, -ion; -ing, -yng; pairischene. [Late north. ME. and north. e.m.E. (chiefly Yorks.) parichin (c 1450), parishing (1486, 1584), -yng (1511), paryshynge (1524), f. Parisch(e n., with unexplained ending: cf. Parochin n. ME. and e.m.E. had parisc(h)en (14th c.), pariss(c)hen, -ischien, paresschene, parshen, parschene (14–15th c.), parishione (1536), paryschyn (1566), n. parishioner, a. of a parish: cf. Parischinar n. and Parochin n.]

a. A parish. = Parochin n. 1. b. Identified by a place or church name. = Parochin n. 2. c. Parishioners, collectively. = Parochin n. 3. d. Attrib.a. (a) 1445 Peebles B. Rec. I. ii.
The vicar or his chapellane that beris cur of the parischyn vnder the vicar 1497–8 Acta Conc. II. 101.
Parischin 1525 E. Loth. Antiq. Soc. V. 29.
Paryschyne a1538 Abell 30 b.
Paip Dynice … dewidit to kirkmen thare parichynis 1551 Hamilton Cat. 98.
For the sustentatioun of pure peple within thair paryschyng 1558-66 Knox I. 128.
Parishyne 1639 Baillie I. 238.
Parishion 1649 Kingarth Par. Rec. 17.
Parishone(b) 1495 Reg. Cupar A. I. 250.
Parisoun 1546 Lynd. Trag. Card. 411.
Parisoun [: diresioun] c 1580 Liber Dryburgh 362.
Parysone(c) 1562 St. A. Kirk S. 179.
Parreson … paresonis(d) 1557 Rec. Earld. Orkney 108.
Perisoun(e) 1651 Cramond Kirk S. 7 Sept.
Pairischeneb. (1) 1462 Cal. Charters Suppl. 9 Nov.
Ony of the inhabitandis of the parischin of Adȝel 1476 Reg. Great S. 310/2. c 1500 Rec. Earld. Orkney 423.
Land … lyand within the erldome of Orknay and parischone of Firth 1502 Curle Coll. (Reg. H.) MS. 27 Apr.
Our burdkyrkis & parichones of Bonkle and Prestoun 1541–2 Reg. Privy S. II. 686/2.
Parrichin 1545–6 Rec. Earld. Orkney 229.
Parichin 1552 Ib. 246.
Parrisoun 1588 Antiq. Aberd. & B. II. 349.
Parishen 1644 Carnock Kirk S. in Row xxix.
Our nighbour parichon of Dunfermlyne 1658 Hawick Arch. Soc. (1951) 27.
The upper end of the parishine of Hassendean 1674 Edinb. Test. LXXIV. 352 b.
The iandis and roumes … lyand within the parisching of Melrose(b) 1586 Perth B. Ct. 20 Dec.
Perrychin(2) 1510 Rec. Earld. Orkney 86.
In Sant Andres parisone 1534 Ib. 216.
Ane merk of land … in Our Lady parysone of Deyrnes in the twne of Sandvyk 1562–3 Ib. 114.
Peresone 1570–1 Ib. 130.
Balȝe of Sanct Androis parresone 1654 Johnston Diary II. 237.
In Currye parishinc. 1474 Stirlings of Keir 249.
In oppyne audience befor the parichine 1498 Ib. 270.
Parichane 1540 Lynd. Sat. 2748 (B).
Parichoun 1588 Burntisland B. Ct. 15 Oct.
And toune and parisoun to … contribuit togidder 1669 Bk. Old Edinb. C. V. 144.
Send hir to Edinburgh at the perishones expenssd. 1506 Reg. Great S. 641/1.
Et le perissoun herbare ex orientali partibus