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unˈbishop, v.
[un-2 6 b and 4.]
1. trans. To deprive of the office of bishop.
1598Florio, Smetriare, to vnmytre, to vnbishop, to degrade from a mytre. 1628in Cosin's Corr. (Surtees) i. 153 You in the north, I in the south, are the object of toungs and penns, and I must be unbishop't a-geyne. 1657Trapp Comm. Job xxxi. 30 The one died ere he came home, and the other was unbishoped. 1691S. Grascome Reply Vind. Disc. Unreasonableness New Separation 11/2 It was in their power to take away our Orders, and Unpriest and Unbishop us.
refl.1641Milton Reform. i. Wks. 1851 III. 11 When he steps up into the Chayre of Pontificall Pride,..then he degrades, then he un-Bishops himselfe. 1680Spirit of Popery 15 By which he did really unbishop himself.
2. To deprive (a place) of a bishop. rare—1.
a1661Fuller Worthies, Glouc. i. (1662) 368 Some questioned its Charter, and would have had it Un-Citied, because Un-Bishoped in our Civil Wars.
Hence unˈbishop(p)ing vbl. n.
1636Prynne (title), The Vnbishoping of Timothy and Titvs. 1641Lords Spiritual 7 That this un-bishoping intends onely the losse of his Barony and place in Parliament. 1711–2M. Henry Life P. Henry vii. Wks. 1853 II. 691/2 Much was said, pro and con, touching..the bishoping and unbishoping of Timothy and Titus [etc.]. |