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Bishoping :: Bishoping (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bisho.

Episcopize :: Episcopize (v. i.) To perform the duties of a bishop.

Unbishop :: Unbishop (v. t.) To deprive, as a city, of a bishop; to deprive, as a clergyman, of episcopal dignity or rights..

Bishop''s Length :: Bishop's length () A canvas for a portrait measuring 58 by 94 inches. The half bishop measures 45 by 56.

Coadjutor :: Coadjutor (n.) The assistant of a bishop or of a priest holding a benefice.

Sarum Use :: Sarum use () A liturgy, or use, put forth about 1087 by St. Osmund, bishop of Sarum, based on Anglo-Saxon and Norman customs..

Fanon :: Fanon (n.) A term applied to various articles, as: (a) A peculiar striped scarf worn by the pope at mass, and by eastern bishops. (b) A maniple..

Commendatory :: Commendatory (a.) Holding a benefice in commendam; as, a commendatory bishop..

Bishop :: Bishop (n.) A beverage, being a mixture of wine, oranges or lemons, and sugar..

Penitentiary :: Penitentiary (n.) An officer in some dioceses since A. D. 1215, vested with power from the bishop to absolve in cases reserved to him..

Jansenist :: "Jansenist (n.) A follower of Cornelius Jansen, a Roman Catholic bishop of Ypres, in Flanders, in the 17th century, who taught certain doctrines denying free will and the possibility of resisting divine grace..

Episcopal :: Episcopal (a.) Governed by bishops; as, an episcopal church..

Consecrate :: Consecrate (v. t.) To set apart to a sacred office; as, to consecrate a bishop..

Presentative :: Presentative (a.) Having the right of presentation, or offering a clergyman to the bishop for institution; as, advowsons are presentative, collative, or donative..

Ban :: Ban (n.) A pecuniary mulct or penalty laid upon a delinquent for offending against a ban; as, a mulct paid to a bishop by one guilty of sacrilege or other crimes..

See :: See (n.) Specifically: (a) The seat of episcopal power; a diocese; the jurisdiction of a bishop; as, the see of New York. (b) The seat of an archibishop; a province or jurisdiction of an archibishop; as, an archiepiscopal see. (c) The seat, place, or office of the pope, or Roman pontiff; as, the papal see. (d) The pope or his court at Rome; as, to appeal to the see of Rome..

Chess :: Chess (n.) A game played on a chessboard, by two persons, with two differently colored sets of men, sixteen in each set. Each player has a king, a queen, two bishops, two knights, two castles or rooks, and eight pawns..

Bishop :: Bishop (n.) An old name for a woman's bustle.

Episcopant :: Episcopant (n.) A bishop.

Unmitre :: Unmitre (v. t.) To deprive of a miter; to depose or degrade from the rank of a bishop.

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