(spÄâ²shÉs) adj. 1. Having the ring of truth or plausibility but actually fallacious: a specious argument. 2. Deceptively appealing: It is easy enough to give the old idea [of programmatic music] a specious air of modernity (Aaron Copland).
St. Landry Parish, Louisiana. St. Landry Parish (French: Paroisse de Saint-Landry) is a parish located in the U.S. state of Louisiana. As of the 2010 census, the population was 83,384. The parish seat is Opelousas. The parish was created in 1807.
The tithings of Blakeney, Bledisloe, Hagloe, and Etioe, which are included in this parish for civil purposes, were formed into a separate ecclesiastical parish in 1877. Area of Awre, 4313 acres of land and 1859 of water; population of the civil parish, 1148; of the ecclesiastical, 239.Part of the land has been washed away by the Severn. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol; net value, Â£230.Patron, the Haberdashers' Company.he tithings of Blakeney, Bledisloe, Hagloe, and Etioe, which are included in this parish for civil purposes, were formed into a separate ecclesiastical parish in 1877. Area of Awre, 4313 acres of land and 1859 of water; population of the civil parish, 1148; of the ecclesiastical, 239.