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The correct spelling is bishops.
How to pronounce bishops
/ˈbɪʃəps/
nounIPA: /ˈbɪʃəps/
Say it like: Bis-hop-s
The correct spelling is bishops. An overseer of congregations: either any such overseer, generally speaking, or (in Eastern Orthodoxy, Catholicism, Anglicanism, etc.) an official in the church hierarchy (active…
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Meanings
noun
- 1.An overseer of congregations: either any such overseer, generally speaking, or (in Eastern Orthodoxy, Catholicism, Anglicanism, etc.) an official in the church hierarchy (actively or nominally) governing a diocese, supervising the church's priests, deacons, and property in its territory.
- 2.The holder of the Greek or Roman position of episcopus, supervisor over the public dole of grain, etc.
- 3.Any watchman, inspector, or overlooker.
- 4.A chief of the Festival of Fools or St. Nicholas Day.
- 5.The chess piece denoted ♗ or ♝ which moves along diagonal lines and developed from the shatranj alfil ("elephant") and was originally known as the aufil or archer in English.
verb
- 1.To act as a bishop, to perform the duties of a bishop, especially to confirm another's membership in the church.
- 2.To make a bishop.
- 3.To provide with bishops.
- 4.To permit food (especially milk) to burn while cooking (from bishops' role in the inquisition or as mentioned in the quotation below, of horses).
- 5.(by extension, of horses) To make a horse seem younger, particularly by manipulation of its teeth.
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