bishop
IPA: bˈɪʃʌp
noun
- (Christianity) An overseer of congregations: either any such overseer, generally speaking, or (in Eastern Orthodoxy, Catholicism, Anglicanism, etc.) an official in the church hierarchy (actively or nominally) governing a diocese, supervising the church's priests, deacons, and property in its territory.
- (religion, nonstandard) A similar official or chief priest in another religion.
- (obsolete) The holder of the Greek or Roman position of episcopus, supervisor over the public dole of grain, etc.
- (obsolete) Any watchman, inspector, or overlooker.
- A chief of the Festival of Fools or St. Nicholas Day.
- (chess) The chess piece denoted ♗ or ♝ which moves along diagonal lines and developed from the shatranj alfil ("elephant") and was originally known as the aufil or archer in English.
- Any of various African birds of the genus Euplectes; a kind of weaverbird closely related to the widowbirds.
- (dialectal) A ladybug or ladybird, beetles of the family Coccinellidae.
- A flowering plant of the genus Bifora.
- A sweet drink made from wine, usually with oranges, lemons, and sugar; mulled and spiced port.
- (US, archaic) A bustle.
- (UK, dialectal, archaic) A children's smock or pinafore.
- (countable) An English surname originating as an occupation.
- (countable) A male given name transferred from the surname.
- A locale in the United States.
- A city in Inyo County, California; named for nearby Bishop Creek, itself named for early settler Samuel Addison Bishop.
- A city in Texas; named for landowner F. Z. Bishop.
- A town in Georgia; named for local landowner W. H. Bishop.
- An unincorporated community in Illinois; named for landowner Henry Bishop.
- An unincorporated community in Maryland.
- An unincorporated community in Virginia and West Virginia.
- A ghost town in Washington; named for two early settlers.
- A self-propelled 25-pounder vehicle produced by the United Kingdom during World War II, so called from a supposed resemblance to a bishop's miter.
- Alternative letter-case form of bishop, particularly as a title or term of address. [(Christianity) An overseer of congregations: either any such overseer, generally speaking, or (in Eastern Orthodoxy, Catholicism, Anglicanism, etc.) an official in the church hierarchy (actively or nominally) governing a diocese, supervising the church's priests, deacons, and property in its territory.]
verb
- (Christianity) To act as a bishop, to perform the duties of a bishop, especially to confirm another's membership in the church.
- (by extension, jocularly, obsolete) To confirm (in its other senses).
- (Christianity) To make a bishop.
- (Christianity, rare) To provide with bishops.
- (UK, dialectal) To permit food (especially milk) to burn while cooking (from bishops' role in the inquisition or as mentioned in the quotation below, of horses).
- (by extension, of equestrianism) To make a horse seem younger, particularly by manipulation of its teeth.
- (UK, colloquial, obsolete) To murder by drowning.
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Examples of "bishop" in Sentences
- Christians take the title bishop (used at first only in the plural) to designate their rulers?
- The term bishop is never once used to denote a different office from that of elder or presbyter.
- What image of a bishop, for instance, could possibly form in his mind when I rapped our code-sign for _bishop_?
- However, I have read that in some places being (or dressing?) as a priest, or even better, a bishop is an irresistable provocation to some women.
- [641: 3] "You ought to know that the bishop is in the Church and the Church in the bishop, and _if any be not with the bishop_, that _he is not in the Church_."
- One can make a meta-linguistic move and use paraphrases like ˜the bishop mentioned first™ and the ˜bishop mentioned second™, but precisely which bishop was mentioned first?
- DRYDEN'S translation of Virgil being commended by a right reverend bishop, Lord Chesterfield said, "The original is indeed excellent; but everything suffers by a _translation_, -- except a _bishop_!"
- Meetings, and if unsuitable persons are chosen, the fault rests with them The description which Paul has given of a good bishop will apply to ministers and elders, for the term bishop only means an overseer in spiritual things.
- There can be a distinction between two levels of the second tier of ministry, and we can use the title bishop for the top level, and presbyter for the bottom, so long as we understand that we aren't endorsing an essential, Apostolicly-instituted distinction between the two.
- Epistles to Timothy and Titus, which is assisted by a supposed analogy between the position of the Apostles and of their successors; although the term bishop is clearly used in the passages referred to as well as in other parts of the New Testament indistinguishably from Presbyter, and the magisterial authority of bishops in after ages is unlike rather than like the personal authority of the Apostles in the beginning of the Gospel.
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