episcopizev.
/ɪˈpɪskəpʌɪz/ 1. transitive. To make or consecrate (a person) a bishop. Also absol.
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society > faith > church government > member of the clergy > clerical superior > bishop > act as a bishop [verb (intransitive)]
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episcopate1641
episcopize1651
to bishop it1655
society > faith > church government > member of the clergy > clerical superior > bishop > appoint as bishop [verb (transitive)]
mitre1440
bishop1549
incathedrate1635
episcopize1651
episcopatea1661
episcopalize1823
1651 N. Bacon Contin. Hist. Disc. Govt. xxvii. 218 The course of Episcopizing continued the same as formerly it had beene.
1820 R. Southey Life Wesley II. 407 There seems reason to believe that Wesley was willing to have been episcopized upon this occasion.
1832 Wilson in Blackwood's Mag. 31 286 The very first act of the Devil's own reign Would episcopize Cobbett, and canonize Paine.
2.
a. To rule as a bishop. Also to episcopize it.
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1679 M. Prance Addit. Narr. 46 Sent over into England by the Pope to Episcopize it over all English Catholicks.
a1745 W. Broome Poems, Death J. Shute (R.) By whom he's prelated above the skies, And then the whole world's his t' episcopise.
b. intransitive. To assume the character of a bishop.
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1820 R. Southey Life Wesley II. 310 An inclination to episcopize was evidently shown in this language.
3. To bring under episcopal government; also, to render episcopalian.
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society > faith > church government > kinds of church government > episcopacy > make episcopal [verb (transitive)]
episcopize1768
1768 C. Chauncy Let. to Friend 37 Their main view was to episcopise the Colonies.
1769 Public Advertiser 3 June 4/1 Mr. Apthorpe's Scheme of episcopizing America.
1868 A. K. H. Boyd Lessons Middle Age 176 Not..free to use any active means for episcopising the Church of Scotland.
Derivatives
eˈpiscopizing n. also attributive.
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society > faith > church government > kinds of church government > episcopacy > [noun] > making
episcopizing1768
1768 W. Livingston Let. Bishop Llandaff 19 The episcopising of dissenters.
1768 C. Chauncy Let. to Friend 45 The episcopising plan is of a very interesting nature.
1840 Tait's Edinb. Mag. 7 71 The mission of the apostles was not an episcopizing of geographical dioceses.
1881 J. S. Blackie Lay Serm. viii. 247 His father's episcopising schemes and theories.
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