Word Meanings - ARCHIEPISCOPAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Of or pertaining to an archbishop; as, Canterbury is an archiepiscopal see.

CANTERBURY
1. A city in England, giving its name various articles. It is the seat of the Archbishop of Canterbury , and contains the shrine of Thomas à Becket, to which pilgrimages were formerly made. 2. A stand with divisions in it for holding music, loose
ARCHIEPISCOPALITY
The station or dignity of an archbishop; archiepiscopacy. Fuller.
PERTAIN
stretch out, reach, pertain; per + tenere to hold, keep. See Per-, 1. To belong; to have connection with, or dependence on, something, as an appurtenance, attribute, etc.; to appertain; as, saltness pertains to the ocean; flowers pertain to plant
ARCHIEPISCOPAL
Of or pertaining to an archbishop; as, Canterbury is an archiepiscopal see.
ARCHBISHOP
A chief bishop; a church dignitary of the first class (often called a metropolitan or primate) who superintends the conduct of the suffragan bishops in his province, and also exercises episcopal authority in his own diocese.
ARCHBISHOPRIC
The jurisdiction or office of an archbishop; the see or province over which archbishop exercises archiepiscopal authority.
APPERTAIN
To belong or pertain, whether by right, nature, appointment, or custom; to relate. Things appertaining to this life. Hooker. Give it unto him to whom it appertaineth. Lev. vi. 5. (more info) appartenir, fr. L. appertinere; ad + pertinere to reach