Word Meanings - EPISCOPAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Governed by bishops; as, an episcopal church. 2. Belonging to, or vested in, bishops; as, episcopal jurisdiction or authority; the episcopal system.

Related words: (words related to EPISCOPAL)

• CHURCHLINESS
  Regard for the church.
• CHURCHLIKE
  Befitting a church or a churchman; becoming to a clergyman. Shak.
• EPISCOPALIANISM
  The doctrine and usages of Episcopalians; episcopacy.
• SYSTEMATIZE
  To reduce to system or regular method; to arrange methodically; to methodize; as, to systematize a collection of plants or minerals; to systematize one's work; to systematize one's ideas. Diseases were healed, and buildings erected, before medicine
• VEST
  and E. wear: cf. F. veste. See Wear to carry on the person, and cf. 1. An article of clothing covering the person; an outer garment; a vestment; a dress; a vesture; a robe. In state attended by her maiden train, Who bore the vests that holy rites
• 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.
• CHURCH MODES
  The modes or scales used in ancient church music. See Gregorian.
• SYSTEMLESS
  Not agreeing with some artificial system of classification. (more info) 1. Being without system.
• GOVERNORSHIP
  The office of a governor.
• SYSTEMIZATION
  The act or process of systematizing; systematization.
• VESTRY
  A parochial assembly; an assembly of persons who manage parochial affairs; -- so called because usually held in a vestry. (more info) vestiarium, fr. vestiarius belonging to clothes, fr. vestis a 1. A room appendant to a church, in which sacerdotal
• SYSTEMATISM
  The reduction of facts or principles to a system. Dunglison.
• VESTLET
  Any one of several species of actinians belonging to the genus Cerianthus. These animals have a long, smooth body tapering to the base, and two separate circles of tentacles around the mouth. They form a tough, flexible, feltlike tube with a smooth
• CHURCHSHIP
  State of being a church. South.
• GOVERNABLENESS
  The quality of being governable; manageableness.
• VESTIBULAR
  Of or pertaining to a vestibule; like a vestibule.
• SYSTEMATIST
  1. One who forms a system, or reduces to system. 2. One who adheres to a system.
• CHURCHMANLY
  Pertaining to, or becoming, a churchman. Milman.
• INVESTIGATION
  The act of investigating; the process of inquiring into or following up; research; study; inquiry, esp. patient or thorough inquiry or examination; as, the investigations of the philosopher and the mathematician; the investigations of the judge,
• DIVESTITURE
  The act of stripping, or depriving; the state of being divested; the deprivation, or surrender, of possession of property, rights, etc.
• MISGOVERNED
  Ill governed, as a people; ill directed. "Rude, misgoverned hands." Shak.
• DIVESTMENT
  The act of divesting.
• BERTILLON SYSTEM
  A system for the identification of persons by a physical description based upon anthropometric measurements, notes of markings, deformities, color, impression of thumb lines, etc.
• CONTINENTAL SYSTEM
  The system of commercial blockade aiming to exclude England from commerce with the Continent instituted by the Berlin decree, which Napoleon I. issued from Berlin Nov. 21, 1806, declaring the British Isles to be in a state of blockade, and British
• UNGOVERNABLE
  Not governable; not capable of being governed, ruled, or restrained; licentious; wild; unbridled; as, ungovernable passions. -- Un*gov"ern*a*bly, adv. Goldsmith.
• INVESTIGATIVE
  Given to investigation; inquisitive; curious; searching.
• CHAUTAUQUA SYSTEM OF EDUCATION
  The system of home study established in connection with the summer schools assembled at Chautauqua, N. Y., by the Methodist Episcopal bishop, J. H. Vincent.
• MISGOVERNMENT
  Bad government; want of government. Shak.
• REVESTTURE
  Vesture. Richrevesture of cloth of gold. E. Hall.