parish register

noun Ecclesiastical.

the register of the christenings, marriages, and burials in a parish.
Also called church register.

Origin of parish register

First recorded in 1645–55

Words nearby parish register

parish, parish clerk, parish council, parish house, parish pump, parish register, parishad, parishioner, parisian, parisienne, parison

Example sentences from the Web for parish register

  • The parish-register tells when they were born, and when they died: "known by the ends of being to have been."

    Thoughts on Man |William Godwin

British Dictionary definitions for parish register

parish register

noun

a book in which the births, baptisms, marriages, and deaths in a parish are recorded