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

Official :: Official (a.) An ecclesiastical judge appointed by a bishop, chapter, archdeacon, etc., with charge of the spiritual jurisdiction..

Episcopalian :: Episcopalian (a.) Pertaining to bishops, or government by bishops; episcopal; specifically, of or relating to the Protestant Episcopal Church..

Rochet :: Rochet (n.) A linen garment resembling the surplise, but with narrower sleeves, also without sleeves, worn by bishops, and by some other ecclesiastical dignitaries, in certain religious ceremonies..

Bullwort :: Bullwort (n.) See Bishop's-weed.

Vidame :: Vidame (n.) One of a class of temporal officers who originally represented the bishops, but later erected their offices into fiefs, and became feudal nobles..

Commissary :: Commissary (n.) An officer of the bishop, who exercises ecclesiastical jurisdiction in parts of the diocese at a distance from the residence of the bishop..

Crook :: Crook (n.) A bishop's staff of office. Cf. Pastoral staff.

Commendam :: Commendam (n.) A vacant living or benefice commended to a cleric (usually a bishop) who enjoyed the revenue until a pastor was provided. A living so held was said to be held in commendam. The practice was abolished by law in 1836.

Miterwort :: Miterwort (n.) Any plant of the genus Mitella, -- slender, perennial herbs with a pod slightly resembling a bishop's miter; bishop's cap..

Cathedral :: Cathedral (a.) Emanating from the chair of office, as of a pope or bishop; official; authoritative..

Enthronize :: Enthronize (v. t.) To place on a throne; hence, to induct into office, as a bishop..

Bishopric :: Bishopric (n.) The office of a spiritual overseer, as of an apostle, bishop, or presbyter..

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

Duke :: Duke (n.) In England, one of the highest order of nobility after princes and princesses of the royal blood and the four archbishops of England and Ireland..

Presentation :: Presentation (n.) The act of offering a clergyman to the bishop or ordinary for institution in a benefice; the right of presenting a clergyman.

Abbot :: Abbot (n.) One of a class of bishops whose sees were formerly abbeys.

Succession :: Succession (n.) A series of persons or things according to some established rule of precedence; as, a succession of kings, or of bishops; a succession of events in chronology..

Bustle :: Bustle (n.) A kind of pad or cushion worn on the back below the waist, by women, to give fullness to the skirts; -- called also bishop, and tournure..

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..

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