parsonage
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- n an official residence provided by a church for its parson or vicar or rector
- The judge decided that he had violated the customs and laws of his church, and perpetually enjoined him from occupying the parsonage or conducting services in the church building.
- To gather up the offering, pots and pans from the parsonage were pressed into service to supplement the four collection plates.
- When he solved the problem by persuading his congregation to rent him another house while leasing the parsonage quarters "to a much shorter man," newspapers in Washington and New .