Word Meanings - CHOREPISCOPUS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A "country" or suffragan bishop, appointed in the ancient church by a diocesan bishop to exercise episcopal jurisdiction in a rural district.

Related words: (words related to CHOREPISCOPUS)

• SUFFRAGAN
  A bishop considered as an assistant, or as subject, to his metropolitan; an assistant bishop. (more info) 1. An assistant.
• CHURCHLINESS
  Regard for the church.
• RURALITY
  1. The quality or state of being rural. 2. A rural place. "Leafy ruralities." Carlyle.
• CHURCHLIKE
  Befitting a church or a churchman; becoming to a clergyman. Shak.
• COUNTRY-DANCE
  See MACUALAY
• EPISCOPALIANISM
  The doctrine and usages of Episcopalians; episcopacy.
• BISHOPDOM
  Jurisdiction of a bishop; episcopate. "Divine right of bishopdom." Milton.
• RURALIZE
  To become rural; to go into the country; to rusticate.
• COUNTRY SEAT
  A dwelling in the country, used as a place of retirement from the city.
• DIOCESAN
  Of or pertaining to a diocese; as, diocesan missions.
• CHURCH
  AS. circe, cyrice; akin to D. kerk, Icel. kirkja, Sw. kyrka, Dan. kirke, G. kirche, OHG. chirihha; all fr. Gr. ç'd4ra hero, Zend. çura 1. A building set apart for Christian worship. 2. A Jewish or heathen temple. Acts xix. 37. 3. A formally
• CHURCHYARD
  The ground adjoining a church, in which the dead are buried; a cemetery. Like graves in the holy churchyard. Shak. Syn. -- Burial place; burying ground; graveyard; necropolis; cemetery; God's acre.
• CHURCH-BENCH
  A seat in the porch of a church. Shak.
• BISHOPLY
  Bishoplike; episcopal.
• CHURCH MODES
  The modes or scales used in ancient church music. See Gregorian.
• BISHOP-STOOL
  A bishop's seat or see.
• APPOINTER
  One who appoints, or executes a power of appointment. Kent.
• SUFFRAGANSHIP
  The office of a suffragan.
• BISHOP'S-WEED
  An umbelliferous plant of the genus Ammi. Goutweed .
• CHURCHSHIP
  State of being a church. South.
• EQUICRURAL
  Having equal legs or sides; isosceles. "Equicrural triangles." Sir T. Browne.
• REDISTRICT
  To divide into new districts.
• REAPPOINT
  To appoint again.
• EXERCISE
  exercitum, to drive on, keep, busy, prob. orig., to thrust or drive 1. The act of exercising; a setting in action or practicing; employment in the proper mode of activity; exertion; application; use; habitual activity; occupation, in
• BICRURAL
  Having two legs. Hooker.
• PREAPPOINTMENT
  Previous appointment.