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Word Meanings - BISHOP-STOOL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A bishop's seat or see.

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  • BISHOPDOM
    Jurisdiction of a bishop; episcopate. "Divine right of bishopdom." Milton.
  • BISHOPLY
    Bishoplike; episcopal.
  • BISHOP-STOOL
    A bishop's seat or see.
  • BISHOP'S-WEED
    An umbelliferous plant of the genus Ammi. Goutweed .
  • BISHOPLIKE
    Resembling a bishop; belonging to a bishop. Fulke.
  • BISHOP'S LENGTH
    A canvas for a portrait measuring 58 by 94 inches. The half bishop measures 45 of 56.
  • BISHOP
    L. episcopus overseer, superintendent, bishop, fr. Gr. , over + inspector, fr. root of , , to look to, perh. akin to L. specere to 1. A spiritual overseer, superintendent, or director. Ye were as sheep going astray; but are now returned unto the
  • BISHOPRIC
    1. A diocese; the district over which the jurisdiction of a bishop extends. 2. The office of a spiritual overseer, as of an apostle, bishop, or presbyter. Acts i. 20.
  • BISHOP'S CAP
    A plant of the genus Mitella; miterwort. Longfellow.
  • BISHOP'S-WORT
    Wood betony ; also, the plant called fennel flower , or devil-in-a-bush.
  • BISHOP SLEEVE
    A wide sleeve, once worn by women.
  • ARCHBISHOP
    A chief bishop; a church dignitary of the first class (often called a metropolitan or primate) who superintends the conduct of the suffragan bishops in his province, and also exercises episcopal authority in his own diocese.
  • ARCHBISHOPRIC
    The jurisdiction or office of an archbishop; the see or province over which archbishop exercises archiepiscopal authority.
  • UNBISHOP
    To deprive, as a city, of a bishop; to deprive, as a clergyman, of episcopal dignity or rights. "Then he unbishops himself." Milton.
  • COBISHOP
    A joint or coadjutant bishop. Ayliffe.

 

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