单词 | episcopate |
释义 | episcopaten. 1. The office or dignity of a bishop. ΘΚΠ society > faith > church government > member of the clergy > clerical superior > bishop > [noun] > office of bishopdoma887 bishophoodc1000 bisprichea1300 thronec1390 mitrea1393 seea1393 bishopric1394 pontificality?a1425 chair1480 bishopry1535 episcopality1636 episcopate1641 episcopacy1685 lawna1732 cathedra1863 1641 T. Heywood Reader, here you'l plainly See 1 The late firme scite of our Episcopate. 1744 R. Arnald Crit. Comm. Bk. Wisdom of Solomon Ded. (T.) These great qualities at length conducted you so deservedly to the episcopate. 1782 J. Priestley Hist. Corruptions Christianity II. x. 251 [They] endeavoured to make the episcopate..a higher degree. 1833 C. F. Crusé tr. Eusebius Eccl. Hist. (ed. 2) vi. xxx. 249 Honoured with the episcopate in the churches of Pontus. 2. An episcopal see, a bishopric. ΘΚΠ society > faith > church government > member of the clergy > clerical superior > bishop > [noun] > see of bishopricc890 shirec893 richeOE bishopstoolc1065 siege1297 bishop-see1330 diocesec1330 seata1387 see?a1400 eveschiec1475 bishopwick1570 chair1615 parish1709 episcopate1807 1807 G. Chalmers Caledonia I. iii. v. 357 Bede, who gave the history of that episcopate. 1847 B. Disraeli Tancred I. ii. v. 154 The Church Temporalities' Bill, in 1833..suppressed ten Irish episcopates. 1861 A. P. Stanley Lect. Eastern Church (1869) vii. 227 The Episcopate of Egypt had but a doubtful existence in early times. 3. The period during which a bishop holds office. ΘΚΠ society > faith > church government > member of the clergy > clerical superior > bishop > [noun] > office of > tenure of episcopacy1660 episcopate1868 1868 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest (1876) II. ix. 416 In the third year of his episcopate he was driven out. 1885 Manch. 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. ΘΚΠ society > faith > church government > member of the clergy > clerical superior > bishop > [noun] > collective prelacya1393 bishopdom1641 prelatry1641 episcopacya1797 prelatehood1804 prelature1820 episcopate1842 episcopy1874 episcopature1884 1842 E. B. Pusey Crisis Eng. Church 140 First as to the Episcopate, the Evangelic Bishops in Germany are a creation of the state. 1859 Literary Churchman 5 117/2 The Committee advise the increase of the Episcopate. 1865 A. Maffei Brigand Life II. 98 The instructions to the Neapolitan episcopate. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online March 2018). † episcopatev. Obsolete. a. intransitive. To act as a bishop; to become a bishop. ΘΚΠ society > faith > church government > member of the clergy > clerical superior > bishop > act as a bishop [verb (intransitive)] sitOE episcopate1641 episcopize1651 to bishop it1655 1641 J. Milton Reason Church-govt. 9 There he [sc. S. Peter] commits to the Presbyters only full authority both of feeding the flock, and Episcopating. 1705 W. Wycherley Let. to Pope 7 Apr. in Pope's Lett. (1735) I. 9 A Bishop gains his Bishoprick by saying he will not Episcopate. b. transitive. To make (a person) a bishop. ΘΚΠ society > faith > church government > member of the clergy > clerical superior > bishop > appoint as bishop [verb (transitive)] mitre1440 bishop1549 incathedrate1635 episcopize1651 episcopatea1661 episcopalize1823 a1661 T. Fuller Worthies (1662) London 219 Though all the rest were Episcopated, Doctor Fulke was but Doctor Fulke still. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1641v.1641 |
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