单词 | diocesan |
释义 | diocesanadj.n. A. adj. Of or pertaining to a diocese. ΘΚΠ society > faith > church government > member of the clergy > clerical superior > bishop > [adjective] > relating to throne (see of bishop) diocesan1530 cathedral1570 cathedratic1661 cathedraical1677 diocesian1686 parochial1861 diocesal1880 1530 Myroure Oure Ladye (Fawkes) (1873) ii. 71 Wythout lycense of the bysshop dyocesan. 1640 Bp. J. Hall Episcopacie Ep. Ded. Either the publike, or my own Diœcesan Occasions. 1650 J. Row & J. Row Hist. Kirk Scotl. (1842) 54 That office of a diocesan Lord Bishop..unprofitable and unlawfull. 1712 H. Prideaux Direct. Church-wardens (ed. 4) 104 Their Business..was to attend Diocesan Synods. 1859 J. M. Jephson & L. Reeve Narr. Walking Tour Brittany 279 The old diocesan town of Dol. 1894 Athenæum 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. ΘΚΠ society > faith > church government > member of the clergy > clerical superior > bishop > [noun] bishopc897 patriarcheOE bispa1300 ordinarya1325 ordinar?1403 father1418 discretion1421 pontificalc1440 diocesanc1450 rocheter1559 monseigneur1561 pope1563 bite-sheep1570 presul1577 rochet1581 diocesser1606 lawn sleevesc1640 episcopant1641 Right Reverend1681 diocesian1686 lawn-man1795 diocesiarch1805 bish1875 shire-bishop1880 c1450 Jacob's Well (1900) 61 Whanne a man..is bodyn com hom to his dyocesan, or to his ordynarye, to takyn his penauns of hym. 1493 Festivall (1515) 194 Also ye shall praye..for the bysshop of .N. of our dyocysen. 1549 Forme & Maner consecratyng Archebishoppes sig. D.ijv He maie be admitted by his diocesan to the ordre of Priesthod. 1687 R. L'Estrange Reply Reasons against Addressing 18 Whether they are more oblig'd to their Metropolitan, than to their Diocesan. 1765 T. Hutchinson Hist. Colony Massachusets-Bay, 1628–91 (ed. 2) iv. 418 They would be no longer subject to any diocesan in England. 1881 W. R. W. Stephens South Saxon Diocese Langton belonged to that class of prelates who were statesmen rather than diocesans. 2. One of the clergy or people of a diocese. ΘΚΠ society > faith > aspects of faith > religion > a religion or church > [noun] > membership in > person having > in diocese diocesan1502 diocesenera1626 society > faith > church government > member of the clergy > clerical superior > bishop > [noun] > see of > person in diocesan1502 diocesenera1626 1502 tr. Ordynarye of Crysten Men (de Worde) iv. vii. sig. t.i These bysshoppes, or their diocesains, these curates. 1532 T. More Confut. Tyndale in Wks. 398/2 As the..godfather blesseth ye chyld..or the bishop his dyocesane. 1555 W. Waterman tr. J. Boemus Fardle of Facions ii. xii. 283 These [Bishopes] mighte not then gouerne their Clergie, and other their Diocesans, at their owne pleasure. 1728 J. Morgan Compl. Hist. Algiers I. v. 317 Titular Prelates..very unlikely ever to visit their Diocesans in partibus Infidelium. 1819 C. Lamb in Examiner 14 Feb. 109/1 Faithful lovers..content to rank themselves humble diocesans with old Bishop Valentine. 1839 J. R. Lowell Lett. (1894) I. 50 Latimer..said..that the devil was the faithfullest of bishops..His diocesans, too, are no whit less zealous. Derivatives diˈocesanist n. an advocate of a diocesan system. ΚΠ 1887 Church Q. Rev. XXIII. 347 The desire of the Diocesanist leaders..to introduce..certain usages. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1896; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < |
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