Parsonage: alternatives and connections

Pertaining to fields, or lands, or their tenure; esp., relating to an equal or equitable division of lands; as, the agrarian laws of R…

The offerings made upon the altar, or to a church.

To be native to, or an inhabitant of; esp. to have a legal residence, settlement, or inhabitancy, whether by birth or operation of law…

A writing under seal, by which a person binds himself, his heirs, executors, and administrators, to pay a certain sum on or before a f…

The prosecution or defense of a suit, whether by furnishing money or personal services, by one who has no legitimate concern therein,…

A cap of maintenance. See Maintenance.

A gathering of money for charitable or other purposes, as by passing a contribution box for freewill offerings.

An alms basket; a vessel to receive gifts of charity; a treasury of the church, where offerings are deposited.

Spiritual charge; care of soul; the office of a parish priest or of a curate; hence, that which is committed to the charge of a parish…

the life estate which a husband has in the lands of his deceased wife, which by the common law takes effect where he has had issue by…

To deprive of that principal quality of gavelkind tenure by which lands descend equally among all the sons of the tenant; -- said of l…

Anciently, one to whom lands were given; in later use, one to whom lands and tenements are given in tail; in modern use, one on whom a…

Sustenance; maintenance; allowance, esp. for meat and drink; pension. Specifically: (Eng. Univ.) Private benefaction for the maintenan…

Anything of an accessory character annexed to houses and lands, so as to constitute a part of them. This term is, however, quite frequ…

A blending of property for equality of division, as when lands given in frank-marriage to one daughter were, after the death of the an…

One of several vessels in Solomon's Temple in which the offerings for burnt sacrifices were washed.

A sort of ecclesiastical heriot, a customary gift claimed by, and due to, the minister of a parish on the death of a parishioner. It s…

A rural custom in England, of visiting one's parents on Midlent Sunday, -- supposed to have been originally visiting the mother church…