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metropolitanship|mɛtrəˈpɒlɪtənʃɪp|
[f. metropolitan n. + -ship.]
The office, position, or see of a metropolitan bishop. In first quot. fig.
a1638Mede Wks. (1672) iii. 60 The Apocalyptical Babylon is not Babylon in Chaldæa, but a Counter-type thereof, most like for Universal Ambition and Metropolitanship of Spiritual Fornication. 1640Bastwick Lord Bps. ii. B iij, What a hot stirre was..heretofore between the Prelates of Canterbury and Yorke for the universall Metropolitanship over all England? 1838G. S. Faber Inquiry 267 Some further divisions produced another metropolitanship in Slavonia. a1878Mozley Lect. xvi. (1883) 261 The metropolitanship stood upon the Letters Patent. |