Word Meanings - BISHOP-STOOL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A bishop's seat or see.

Related words: (words related to BISHOP-STOOL)

• BISHOPDOM
  Jurisdiction of a bishop; episcopate. "Divine right of bishopdom." Milton.
• BISHOPLY
  Bishoplike; episcopal.
• BISHOP-STOOL
  A bishop's seat or see.
• BISHOP'S-WEED
  An umbelliferous plant of the genus Ammi. Goutweed .
• BISHOPLIKE
  Resembling a bishop; belonging to a bishop. Fulke.
• BISHOP'S LENGTH
  A canvas for a portrait measuring 58 by 94 inches. The half bishop measures 45 of 56.
• BISHOP
  L. episcopus overseer, superintendent, bishop, fr. Gr. , over + inspector, fr. root of , , to look to, perh. akin to L. specere to 1. A spiritual overseer, superintendent, or director. Ye were as sheep going astray; but are now returned unto the
• BISHOPRIC
  1. A diocese; the district over which the jurisdiction of a bishop extends. 2. The office of a spiritual overseer, as of an apostle, bishop, or presbyter. Acts i. 20.
• BISHOP'S CAP
  A plant of the genus Mitella; miterwort. Longfellow.
• BISHOP'S-WORT
  Wood betony ; also, the plant called fennel flower , or devil-in-a-bush.
• BISHOP SLEEVE
  A wide sleeve, once worn by women.
• 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.
• UNBISHOP
  To deprive, as a city, of a bishop; to deprive, as a clergyman, of episcopal dignity or rights. "Then he unbishops himself." Milton.
• COBISHOP
  A joint or coadjutant bishop. Ayliffe.