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episcopize, v.|ɪˈpɪskəpaɪz|
[f. L. episcop-us bishop + -ize.]
1. trans. To make or consecrate (a person) a bishop. Also absol.
1649Selden Laws Eng. ii. xxvii. (1739) 127 The course of Episcopizing continued the same as formerly it had been. 1820Southey Wesley II. 407 There seems reason to believe that Wesley was willing to have been episcopized upon this occasion. 1832Wilson in Blackw. Mag. XXXI. 286 The very first act of the Devil's own reign Would episcopize Cobbett, and canonize Paine.
2. To rule as a bishop. Also to episcopize it.
1679M. Prance Addit. Narr. Pop. Plot 46 Sent over into England by the Pope to Episcopize it over all English Catholicks. a1745W. Broome Poems, Death J. Shute (R.), By whom he's prelated above the skies, And then the whole world's his t' episcopise.
b. intr. To assume the character of a bishop.
1820Southey Wesley II. 310 An inclination to episcopize was evidently shown in this language.
3. To bring under episcopal government; also, to render episcopalian.
1767Chauncy Let. (1768) 37 Their main view was to episcopise the Colonies. 1769Public Advertiser 3 June 4/1 Mr. Apthorpe's Scheme of episcopizing America. 1868Lessons Mid. Age 176 Not..free to use any active means for episcopising the Church of Scotland.
Hence eˈpiscopizing vbl. n.; also attrib.
1768W. Livingston Let. Bp. Llandaff 19 The episcopising of dissenters. 1768in Chauncy Let. 45 The episcopising plan is of a very interesting nature. 1840Tait's Mag. VII. 71 The mission of the apostles was not an episcopizing of geographical dioceses. 1881Blackie Lay Serm. viii. 247 His father's episcopising schemes and theories. |