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episcopal, a. and n.|ɪˈpɪskəpəl|
[a. Fr. épiscopal, ad. late L. episcopālis, f. episcopus bishop.]
A. adj.
1. Of or pertaining to a bishop or bishops.
1485Act 1 Hen. VII, c. 4 Archbishops and Bishops, and other Ordinaries, having Episcopal jurisdiction. 1675Ogilby Brit. 4 A City..Dignified with an Episcopal See. 1765Blackstone Comm. i. ii. (R.), The usual mode of elevating to the episcopal chair. 1877W. Jones Finger-ring 210 The episcopal ring..was considered a symbol of sacerdotal authority.
2. Pertaining to, or of the nature of, episcopacy. † Formerly also of persons: Advocating or supporting episcopacy.
1651Baxter Inf. Bapt. 145 The Episcopall Party are far more confirmed in their way by it. a1674Clarendon Hist. Reb. ix. (1843) 592/2 The maintenance and support of the episcopal government in England. 1692Luttrell Brief Rel. (1857) II. 379 By removing diverse of the kirk party and putting in episcopall men. 1704Nelson Fest. & Fasts (1739) 530 The Christian Church..gives full Testimony in behalf of Episcopal Government.
3. Of a church: Constituted on the principle of episcopacy. Often spec. (with initial capital) of the Anglican Church, of which in Scotland and the United States it is the ordinary designation; also with prefixed adj. in the names of certain other religious bodies, as Methodist Episcopal, Reformed Episcopal. Hence of buildings used for worship, clergy, forms of service, etc.: Belonging to such a church.
In U.S. sometimes of persons, = episcopalian a. 1.
1752Hume Ess. & Treat. (1777) I. 69 The established clergy were episcopal. 1806Gazetteer Scotl. 277 The episcopal chapel. a1831A. Knox Rem. (1844) I. 59 The distress of the English Episcopal Church during the Usurpation. 1844S. Wilberforce Hist. Prot. Episc. Ch. Amer. (1846) 437 It would be difficult to find, in the whole Episcopal communion throughout America, one specimen, etc.
†B. n. An adherent of episcopacy; one belonging to the Episcopal church; = episcopalian.
1708Swift Sacram. Test. Wks. 1755 II. i. 137 The dissenting episcopals. 1716M. Davies Ath. Brit. II. 310 Twenty Episcopals perchance to one Kirker of the Calvinistical Order. 1823Blackw. Mag. XIV. 181 Good episcopal as I am, you have sickened me. |