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uneˈpiscopal, a.
[un-1 7.]
1. Not controlled by bishops; not episcopalian in character or government.
1659Gauden Tears Ch. ** 2 He never set up any soveraign and unepiscopal Presbytery as an Idol or Moloch. 1863A. Blomfield Mem. Bp. Blomfield I. xi. 298 The High-Church party..looked with dislike..upon any display of friendly feeling towards an un-episcopal Church.
2. Not pertaining to or befitting a bishop.
a1661Fuller Worthies, Wilts. iii. (1662) 150 If any say, this was an un-episcopal act; know, he did it not as Bishop, but as Lord Treasurer. 1716M. Davies Athen. Brit. III. 34 They could not have pleas'd the Dissenters..better, than by such Un-episcopal Ravings. 1889Gretton Memory's Harkb. 55 The sayings and doings of his early unepiscopal days were remembered. 1897J. W. Clark Barnwell Introd. 20 The Bishop lost his temper, and used very un⁓episcopal language.
Hence uneˈpiscopally adv.
1886Manch. Exam. 6 Jan. 3/1 The unepiscopally explicit declaration. |