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any single private clergyman: see 1 Bl. Com. 384. Many appropriations, however, are now in the hands of lay persons, who are usually styled, by way of distinction, lay impropriators. In all appro-priations there is generally a … Lat., because the parson omnium personam in ecclesi' sustinet; or from parochianus, the parish-priest.--Johnson; anciently written persone.--Todd], 'the rector of a church parochiall' (Co. Litt. 300 a); one that has a parochial charge or cure of souls.
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