Word Meanings - DIOCESE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The circuit or extent of a bishop's jurisdiction; the district in which a bishop exercises his ecclesiastical authority.

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• BISHOPDOM
  Jurisdiction of a bishop; episcopate. "Divine right of bishopdom." Milton.
• CIRCUITOUS
  Going round in a circuit; roundabout; indirect; as, a circuitous road; a circuitous manner of accompalishing an end. -- Cir*cu"i*tous*ly, adv. -- Cir*cu"i*tous*ness, n. Syn. -- Tortuous; winding; sinuous; serpentine.
• BISHOPLY
  Bishoplike; episcopal.
• ECCLESIASTICALLY
  In an ecclesiastical manner; according ecclesiastical rules.
• BISHOP-STOOL
  A bishop's seat or see.
• WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
  Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
• BISHOP'S-WEED
  An umbelliferous plant of the genus Ammi. Goutweed .
• CIRCUITY
  A going round in a circle; a course not direct; a roundabout way of proceeding.
• CIRCUITER
  One who travels a circuit, as a circuit judge. R. Whitlock.
• BISHOPLIKE
  Resembling a bishop; belonging to a bishop. Fulke.
• DISTRICT
  Rigorous; stringent; harsh. Punishing with the rod of district severity. Foxe.
• WHICH
  the root of hwa who + lic body; hence properly, of what sort or kind; akin to OS. hwilik which, OFries. hwelik, D. welk, G. welch, OHG. welih, hwelih, Icel. hvilikr, Dan. & Sw. hvilken, Goth. hwileiks, 1. Of what sort or kind; what; what a; who.
• BISHOP'S LENGTH
  A canvas for a portrait measuring 58 by 94 inches. The half bishop measures 45 of 56.
• AUTHORITY
  1. Legal or rightful power; a right to command or to act; power exercised buy a person in virtue of his office or trust; dominion; jurisdiction; authorization; as, the authority of a prince over subjects, and of parents over children; the authority
• 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
• JURISDICTION
  The legal power, right, or authority of a particular court to hear and determine causes, to try criminals, or to execute justice; judicial authority over a cause or class of causes; as, certain suits or actions, or the cognizance of certain crimes,
• 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.
• CIRCUIT
  1. The act of moving or revolving around, or as in a circle or orbit; a revolution; as, the periodical circuit of the earth round the sun. Watts. 2. The circumference of, or distance round, any space; the measure of a line round an area.
• DISTRICTION
  Sudden display; flash; glitter. A smile . . . breaks out with the brightest distriction. Collier.
• BISHOP'S CAP
  A plant of the genus Mitella; miterwort. Longfellow.
• REDISTRICT
  To divide into new districts.
• SHORT CIRCUIT
  A circuit formed or closed by a conductor of relatively low resistance because shorter or of relatively great conductivity.
• RED-LIGHT DISTRICT
  A district or neighborhood in which disorderly resorts are frequent; -- so called in allusion to the red light kept in front of many such resorts at night.
• BREAK-CIRCUIT
  A key or other device for breaking an electrical circuit.