PARSIMONIOUS
Unwilling to spend money or use resources, stingy
”All the provision was made by the present ecclesiastical constitution, for the inhabitants of about a hundred square miles, is a prayer and a sermon in a little room, once in three weeks: and even this parsimonious distribution is at the mercy of the weather; and in those islands were the minister does not reside, it is impossible to tell how many weeks or months may pass without a publick exercise of religion.“
-Dr. Johnson
(1773 description of the state of churches and services in the remote Scottish Hebride)
