单词 | episcopable |
释义 | episcopableadj. Qualified for appointment as a bishop. ΘΚΠ society > faith > church government > member of the clergy > clerical superior > bishop > [adjective] > eligible to be a bishop episcopable1662 1662 T. Hobbes Mr Hobbes Considered 43 The rest of the Clergy, Bishops, and Episcopable men. 1676 A. Marvell Gen. Councils in Wks. (1875) IV. 132 The deacons..would prick on to render themselves capable and episcopable, upon the first vacancy. 1884 Pall Mall Gaz. 31 May 12/1 The Prime Minister has taken four years to discover that episcopable men exist outside his own ecclesiastical party. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online March 2018). < adj.1662 |
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