Bishop
['bɪʃəp]
Definition
(noun.) (chess) a piece that can be moved diagonally over unoccupied squares of the same color.
(noun.) port wine mulled with oranges and cloves.
(noun.) a senior member of the Christian clergy having spiritual and administrative authority; appointed in Christian churches to oversee priests or ministers; considered in some churches to be successors of the twelve Apostles of Christ.
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Definition
(n.) A spiritual overseer, superintendent, or director.
(n.) In the Roman Catholic, Greek, and Anglican or Protestant Episcopal churches, one ordained to the highest order of the ministry, superior to the priesthood, and generally claiming to be a successor of the Apostles. The bishop is usually the spiritual head or ruler of a diocese, bishopric, or see.
(n.) In the Methodist Episcopal and some other churches, one of the highest church officers or superintendents.
(n.) A piece used in the game of chess, bearing a representation of a bishop's miter; -- formerly called archer.
(n.) A beverage, being a mixture of wine, oranges or lemons, and sugar.
(n.) An old name for a woman's bustle.
(v. t.) To admit into the church by confirmation; to confirm; hence, to receive formally to favor.
(v. t.) To make seem younger, by operating on the teeth; as, to bishop an old horse or his teeth.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Prelate.[2]. Bustle, tournure.
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Definition
n. in the Western and Eastern Churches and in the Anglican communion a clergyman consecrated for the spiritual direction of a diocese under an archbishop and over the priests or presbyters and deacons: a spiritual overseer in the early Christian Church whether of a local church or of a number of churches—the terms bishop and presbyter are used interchangeably in the New Testament for the officers who direct the discipline and administer the affairs of a single congregation—the differentiation in function and dignity is however well marked by the end of the 2d century: one of the pieces or men in chess from the upper part being carved into the shape of a bishop's mitre (formerly the archer): a wholesome hot drink compounded of red wine (claret Burgundy &c.) poured warm or cold upon ripe bitter oranges sugared and spiced to taste.—v.t. (jocularly) to play the bishop to confirm: to supply with bishops: to let milk or the like burn while cooking.—ns. Bish′opess a she-bishop a bishop's wife; Bish′opric the office and jurisdiction of a bishop: a diocese—also Bish′opdom.—Bishop in partibus (see Partibus).
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Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream of a bishop, teachers and authors will suffer great mental worries, caused from delving into intricate subjects. To the tradesman, foolish buying, in which he is likely to incur loss of good money. For one to see a bishop in his dreams, hard work will be his patrimony, with chills and ague as attendant. If you meet the approval of a much admired bishop, you will be successful in your undertakings in love or business.
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Examples
- He told me he had promised the Bishop to sign some kind of a petition against divorce. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- You know we have to have the Bishop once a year, and she would have given just the right tone to things. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- Bishop, mentally perambulating among paths of peace, was altogether swallowed up in absence of mind. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- Few ways of life were hidden from Physician, and he was oftener in its darkest places than even Bishop. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- Bishop then betook himself up-stairs, and the other magnates gradually floated up after him until there was no one left below but Mr Merdle. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- In which compensating adjustment of their noses, they were pretty much like Treasury, Bar, and Bishop, and all the rest of them. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- Young Mr Bishop was also well. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- Fortunately the Bishop and Miss A---- came to Mbweni, to-day, so we had it for dinner. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- Arius, for example, is accused of heretical opposition because he was not appointed Bishop of Alexandria. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- However, he is a tiptop man and may be a bishop--that kind of thing, you know, if Peel stays in. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Bishop then--jauntily stepping out a little with his well-shaped right leg, as though he said to Mr Merdle 'don't mind the apron; a mere form! Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- Bishop said dubiously, did he really think so? Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- The Bishopess of Ealing was shocked beyond expression; the Bishop went and wrote his name down in the visiting-book at Gaunt House that very day. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- It's this sort of thing--this tyrannical spirit, wanting to play bishop and banker everywhere--it's this sort of thing makes a man's name stink. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- According to that valuation, the lands belonging to the bishop of Breslaw are taxed at twenty-five per cent. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- There were tortures and executions, as well as a great crowding of the gaols with Christian presbyters and bishops. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- And it had a rapidly developing organization of deacons, priests, and bishops. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Not all the Chris tian bishops, to be sure, took a hostile view of Greek learning. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- The clergy, however, soon grew weary of the trouble of managing them, and found it easier to elect their own bishops themselves. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
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