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diocesan, a. and n.|daɪˈɒsɪsən|
Also 5–6 dyocesan(e, 6 diocesain, dyocysen, 7 diocesane, diœcesan.
[Formerly dyocysen, diocesain, a. F. diocesain (15th c.), f. diocise, diocese: see -an 1, and cf. med.L. diœcēsānus (1311 in Du Cange); the regular L. f. diœcēsis (diocese) would be diœcēsiānus: cf. OF. dyocesiien (1332 in Godef. Suppl.), and see diocesian.]
A. adj. Of or pertaining to a diocese.
1450–1530Myrr. our Ladye 71 Wythout lycense of the bysshope dyocesan. 1637–50Row Hist. Kirk (1842) 54 That office of a diocesan Lord Bishop..unprofitable and unlawfull. 1640Bp. Hall Episc. Ep. Ded., Either the publike, or my own Diœcesan Occasions. 1712Prideaux Direct. Ch.-Wardens (ed. 4) 104 Their Business..was to attend Diocesan Synods. 1859Jephson & Reeve Brittany 279 The old diocesan town of Dol. 1894Athenæum 5 May 572/2 The first bishops of Ireland were not diocesan. Their authority seems to have been concurrent, and only limited by the ocean.
B. n.
1. He who is in charge of an ecclesiastical diocese; the bishop of a diocese.
c1440Jacob's Well (E.E.T.S.) 61 Whanne a man..is bodyn com hom to his dyocesan, or to his ordynarye, to takyn his penauns of hym. 1493Festivall (W. de W. 1515) 194 Also ye shall praye..for the bysshop of .N. of our dyocysen. 1552Bk. Com. Prayer Ordering Deacons, He may be admitted by his Diocesan to the ordre of Priesthode. 1689in Somers Tracts II. 278 Whether they are more obliged to their Metropolitan than to their Diocesan. 1765T. Hutchinson Hist. Mass. I. iv. 418 They would be no longer subject to any diocesan in England. 1881W. R. W. Stephens S. Sax. Diocese, Langton belonged to that class of prelates who were statesmen rather than diocesans.
2. One of the clergy or people of a diocese.
1502Ord. Crysten Men (W. de W. 1506) iv. vii. 187 These bysshoppes, or theyr diocesains, these curates. 1532More Confut. Tindale Wks. 398/2 As the..godfather blesseth y⊇ chyld..or the bishop his dyocesane. 1555W. Watreman Fardle Facions ii. xii. 283 These [Bishopes] mighte not then gouerne their Clergie, and other their Diocesans, at their owne pleasure. 1728Morgan Algiers II. v. 317 Titular Prelates..very unlikely ever to visit their Diocesans in partibus Infidelium. 1821Lamb Elia Ser. i. Valentine's day, Faithful lovers..content to rank themselves humble diocesans of old Bishop Valentine. 1839Lowell Lett. (1894) I. 50 Latimer..said..that the devil was the faithfullest of bishops..His diocesans, too, are no whit less zealous.
Hence diˈocesanist, an advocate of a diocesan system.
1887Ch. Q. Rev. XXIII. 347 The desire of the Diocesanist leaders..to introduce..certain usages. |