Word Meanings - UNBISHOP - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To deprive, as a city, of a bishop; to deprive, as a clergyman, of episcopal dignity or rights. "Then he unbishops himself." Milton.

Related words: (words related to UNBISHOP)

• DEPRIVEMENT
  Deprivation.
• EPISCOPALIANISM
  The doctrine and usages of Episcopalians; episcopacy.
• 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.
• CLERGYMAN
  An ordained minister; a man regularly authorized to peach the gospel, and administer its ordinances; in England usually restricted to a minister of the Established Church.
• 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
• DIGNITY
  digneté, dignité, F. dignité, fr. L. dignitas, from dignus worthy. 1. The state of being worthy or honorable; elevation of mind or character; true worth; excellence. 2. Elevation; grandeur. The dignity of this act was worth the audience
• HIMSELF
  1. An emphasized form of the third person masculine pronoun; -- used as a subject usually with he; as, he himself will bear the blame; used alone in the predicate, either in the nominative or objective case; as, it is himself who saved himself.
• 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.
• DEPRIVER
  One who, or that which, deprives.
• EPISCOPALLY
  By episcopal authority; in an episcopal manner.
• MILTONIAN
  Miltonic. Lowell.
• HIMSELF; HIMSELVE; HIMSELVEN
  Themselves. See Hemself. Chaucer.
• MILTONIC
  Of, pertaining to, or resembling, Milton, or his writings; as, Miltonic prose.
• BISHOP'S CAP
  A plant of the genus Mitella; miterwort. Longfellow.
• DEPRIVE
  1. To take away; to put an end; to destroy. 'Tis honor to deprive dishonored life. Shak. 2. To dispossess; to bereave; to divest; to hinder from possessing; to debar; to shut out from; -- with a remoter object, usually preceded by of. God hath
• ARCHIEPISCOPALITY
  The station or dignity of an archbishop; archiepiscopacy. Fuller.
• BRIGHTSOME
  Bright; clear; luminous; brilliant. Marlowe.
• CHOREPISCOPAL
  Pertaining to a chorepiscopus or his change or authority.
• EPISCOPALIAN
  Pertaining to bishops, or government by bishops; episcopal; specifically, of or relating to the Protestant Episcopal Church.
• ARCHIEPISCOPAL
  Of or pertaining to an archbishop; as, Canterbury is an archiepiscopal see.
• HAMILTON PERIOD
  A subdivision of the Devonian system of America; -- so named from Hamilton, Madison Co., New York. It includes the Marcellus, Hamilton, and Genesee epochs or groups. See the Chart of Geology.
• INDIGNITY
  Any action toward another which manifests contempt for him; an offense against personal dignity; unmerited contemptuous treatment; contumely; incivility or injury, accompanied with insult. How might a prince of my great hopes forget So