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▪ I. episcopate, n.|ɪˈpɪskəpət|
[ad. L. episcopātus, f. episcopus bishop.]
1. The office or dignity of a bishop.
1641Heywood Priest, Judge, & P. 1 The late firme scite of our Episcopate. 1744Arnald Comm. Bk. Wisdom Ded. (T.), These great qualities at length conducted you so deservedly to the episcopate. 1782Priestley Corrupt. Chr. II. x. 251 [They] endeavoured to make the episcopate..a higher degree. 1833Cruse Eusebius vi. xxx. 249 Honoured with the episcopate in the churches of Pontus.
2. An episcopal see, a bishopric.
1807G. Chalmers Caledonia I. iii. v. 357 Bede, who gave the history of that episcopate. 1847Disraeli Tancred ii. v, The Church Temporalities' Bill in 1833..suppressed ten Irish episcopates. 1861Stanley East. Ch. vii. (1869) 227 The Episcopate of Egypt had but a doubtful existence in early times.
3. The period during which a bishop holds office.
1868Freeman Norm. Conq. (1876) II. ix. 416 In the third year of his episcopate he was driven out. 1885Manch. Courier 16 June 4/7 That was the 123rd church he had consecrated during the 15 years of his episcopate.
4. The bishops regarded as a collective body.
1842Pusey Crisis Eng. Ch. 140 First as to the Episcopate, the Evangelic Bishops in Germany are a creation of the state. 1859Lit. Churchm. V. 117/2 The Committee advise the increase of the Episcopate. 1865Maffei Brigand Life II. 98 The instructions to the Neapolitan episcopate.
▪ II. † eˈpiscopate, v. Obs.
[f. med.L. episcopāt- ppl. stem of episcopāre, f. episcopus bishop.]
a. intr. To act as a bishop; to become a bishop.
b. trans. To make (a person) a bishop.
1641Milton Ch. Govt. ii. (1851) 106 There he [S. Peter] commits to the Presbyters only full authority both of feeding the flock, and Episcopating. a1661Fuller Worthies (1840) II. 379 Though all the rest were episcopated, doctor Fulke was but doctor Fulke still. 1705Wycherley 7 Apr. in Pope's Lett. (1735) I. 9 A Bishop gains his Bishoprick by saying he will not Episcopate. |