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diocese|ˈdaɪəsɪs, -siːs|
Forms: α. 4–6 dio-, dyocise, -cyse, 5–6 -cis, (diecise, dyosys), 6 Sc. diosise. β. 5–7 diocesse, 6–7 dioces, 6–9 diocess, (5 diosses, 6 dioses, dyoces, dyesses). γ. 6– diocese (6 diœcese). δ. (Sc.) 5–6 dyocye, -cie, 6 diocye, dy-, diosie, diœsie, 6– diocie. ε. 5–6 dio-, dyocesy, -sie, 6 diocœsie.
[ME. diocise, etc., a. OF. diocise (diozcise, 13th c. in Hatz.-Darm.), ad. med.L. diocēsis, for L. diœcēsis a governor's jurisdiction, a district, in later eccl. L. a bishop's jurisdiction, a diocese, a. Gr. διοίκησις, orig. ‘housekeeping’, hence ‘management, administration, government, the province of a (Roman) governor’, and in Byz. Gr. ‘a bishop's jurisdiction, a diocese’, f. διοικέ-ειν to keep house, to manage, administer, govern, f. δι-, δια- through, thoroughly + οἰκέ-ειν to inhabit, occupy, manage. Under Latin influence at the Renascence, the form became in Fr. and Eng. dioces; whence, for phonetic reasons, in Fr. diocèse, in Eng. diocesse, diocess. Diocess was the classical English type from the 16th to the end of the 18th c.; it was the only form recognized by Dr. Johnson and the other 18th century lexicographers, and was retained by some (notably by the Times newspaper) in the 19th c., in which, however, diocese (as in Fr.) has become the established spelling. In Scotch, diocis(e, lost the terminal s in the singular, and was reduced to diocie, diocy. The Gr.-L. word was also independently adapted as diˈocesy, -ie: cf. paralysis, F. paralysie, palsy. (Cf. Pr. diocesa, diocezí, Sp. diˈocesis, Pg. diocese, It. diˈocesi, -cese.)]
†1. Administration, dominion, rule. Sc. Obs.
1596Dalrymple tr. Leslie's Hist. Scot. x. 272 Barounis and Nobles of the Lenox, and diosie of Ramfrwe [ditione Ramfroa]. Ibid. x. 317 Monie men of weir cum be sey esilie..and subiected the toune lychtlie to thair authorietie and diosie, na man resisteng.
2. A district or division of a country under a governor; a province; esp. one of the provinces into which the Roman empire was divided after Diocletian and Constantine. Obs. exc. Hist.
1494Fabyan Chron. vii. 518 The Kyng of Englande, to haue..the cytie of Lymoges, y⊇ cytie of Caours, wt all the dyocis of y⊇ sayd cyties belongynge. 1525Ld. Berners Froiss. II. clxxxiv. [clxxx.] 556 To enioy styll peasably all that euer they were as then in possessyon of in Acquytayne, and nyne dyoces to be quite delyuered. 1601Holland Pliny I. 98 The diocesse Arsinoetis, in the Lybian coast. 1671L. Addison W. Barbary ii. (T.), Wild boars are no rarity in this diocess, which the Moors hunt and kill in a manly pastime. 1741Middleton Cicero I. vi. 551 Cilicia..this Province included also Pisidia, Pamphilia, and three Dioceses, as they were called, or Districts of Asia. 1781Gibbon Decl. & F. II. 36 The civil government of the empire was distributed into thirteen great dioceses, each of which equalled the just measure of a powerful kingdom.
3. Eccl. The sphere of jurisdiction of a bishop; the district under the pastoral care of a bishop. (The earlier and ordinary sense in English.)
αc1330R. Brunne Chron. Wace (Rolls) 5773 To a dyocise langed a cite, & ordened paroschens for to be. c1380Wyclif Wks. (1880) 85 Ȝif prestis wolen seie here masse & techen þe gospel in a bischopis diocise. c1386Chaucer Prol. 664 In daunger hadde he at his owene gise The yonge girles of the diocise. 1483Cath. Angl. 100/2 A diocis, diocesis. a1535More Wks. 231 (R.) He walked about as an apostle of the Deuill..& had in euery diocyse a dyuerse name. 1538Starkey England i. iv. 127 Wyth⁓out examynatyon or sentence gyuen in the Dyosys. 1596Dalrymple tr. Leslie's Hist. Scot. x. 449 Sum of the Clergie..war callit..of the maist notable, Johone Leslie..ffirst estemet Juge of the diosise, primat als of the same.
β1494Fabyan Chron. vi. ccvi. 218 In the diocesse of Magburgh. Ibid. vii. ccxxi. 244 Yt the farther brynke of Humber shuld be the begynnynge of his diosses. 1548Latimer Ploughers (Arb.) 30 The Deuyl..is the moste dyligent preacher of al other, he is neuer out of his dioces. 1554Chron. Gr. Friars (Camden) 93 Alle the parich churches of the dioses of London. a1600Hooker Eccl. Pol. vii. viii. §3 The local compass of his authority we term a diocess. 1641Milton Reform. i. (1851) 32 For one Bishop now in a Dioces we should then have a Pope in every Parish. 1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. vi. i. 279 Austin forbad that [i.e. the translation] of Jerom to be used in his Diocesse. 1761Hume Hist. Eng. II. xxviii. 135 Fox, bishop of Winchester..withdrew himself wholly to the care of his diocess. 1782Priestley Corrupt. Chr. I. iv. 384 Serenus ordered..that they should be removed from..his diocess. 1867Times 26 Nov., (Leading Art.) A bishop must needs have great influence in his diocess. 1868R. Arthur Arnold in Times 8 Jan., There would be no sufficient plea for the maintenance of a bishop in that diocess.
γ1528More Dyalogue i. Wks. 120/2 Any bishop..within his diocese. 1546Langley Pol. Verg. De Invent. iv. vi. 89 b, Parishes to Curates and Dioceses to Byshoppes. 1614Selden Titles Hon. 301 Vnder the Diocese of Chichester. 1765–9Blackstone Comm. (1793) 477 An arch-deacon hath an ecclesiastical jurisdiction, immediately subordinate to the bishop, throughout the whole of his diocese, or in some particular part of it. 1849Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. 283 Reports were laid before him from all the dioceses of the realm. 1856Froude Hist. Eng. I. iv. 341 The bishops had settled..that each diocese should make its own arrangements.
δc1470Henry Wallace i. 172 Glaskow thai gaif..To dyocye in Duram to commend. 1535Stewart Cron. Scot. III. 34 Of Eborak all in the dyocie. 1552Abp. Hamilton Catech. (1884) 3 Within our awin Diocye. 1596Dalrymple tr. Leslie's Hist. Scot. x. 266 That tyme in the diœsie of S. Androis was done na kynde of diuine seruice. 1637–50Row Hist. Kirk, Three Presbyteries..to make up a Provinciall Synode and a Diocie, and everie Provinciall Synod shall appoynt the place of the nixt Synod within that same Diocie. Sc. Prov. Ramsay Remin. (1870) v. 146 The deil's a busy bishop in his ain diocie.
εc1425Wyntoun Cron. vii. ix. 542 In all þe kyrkis halyly Of Abbyrdenys Dyocesy. 1562Winȝet Last Blast Trompet Wks. 1888 I. 43 In euery diocesie and parochin. 1580Wills & Inv. N.C. (Surtees 1835) 428 Wythin the diocœsie of Durham.
b. transf. and fig.
1616S. Ward Coale fr. Altar (1627) 14 True zeale loues to keepe home, studieth to bee quiet in other mens Dioces. a1631Donne Poems (1650) 99 Haile Bishop Valentine, whose day this is, All the Aire is thy Diocis. a1635Corbet Poems (1807) 18 Their plays had..A perfect diocess of actors Upon the stage. 1644Milton Divorce (ed. 2) ii. xxi. 75 The causes..reside so deeply in the..affections of nature, as is not within the diocese of Law to tamper with. 1822Lamb Elia Ser. i. Artif. Com. Last Cent., I am glad for a season to take an airing beyond the diocese of the strict conscience. 1891Morley in Daily News 10 Dec. 3/2 To go about, as my friend does, through the whole of what I may call his diocese of those northern countries, and breathe out Liberalism.
Hence ˈdioceseless a., without a diocese; † diocesener, one who belongs to a diocese; = diocesan n. 2; dioˈcesiarch, the ruler of a diocese; † ˈdiocesser = diocesan n. 1.
1885R. W. Dixon Hist Ch. Eng. III. 175 A dioceseless bishop. a1626Bacon Case of Post-nati Wks. (Ellis & Spedding) VII. 657 They say this unity in the bishop or the rector doth not create any privity between the parishioners or dioceseners, more than if there were several bishops, or several parsons. 1805W. Taylor in Monthly Mag. XX. 512 Diocesan properly means ‘belonging to the diocese’. In English this word is applied oddly to the diocesiarch, or chief of the diocese. 1606Warner Alb. Eng. xiv. xci. 370 More than be Conuocations now Diocessers were stout. |