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单词 episcopal
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episcopaladj.n.

/ɪˈpɪskəpəl/
Etymology: < French épiscopal, < late Latin episcopālis , < episcopus bishop n.
A. adj.
1. Of or pertaining to a bishop or bishops.
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society > faith > church government > member of the clergy > clerical superior > bishop > [adjective]
bishoplyc890
mitredc1400
hornedc1425
pontificalc1440
episcopal1485
bishoplike1544
rocheted?1544
rochet1561
pontificial1591
pontifician1618
lawny1647
episcopalian1822
1485–6 Rolls of Parl.: Henry VII (Electronic ed.) Parl. Nov. 1485 1st Roll §67. m. 45 Archebisshops and bisshops and othre ordinaries havyng episcopall jurisdiccion.
1675 J. Ogilby Britannia 4 A City..Dignified with an Episcopal See.
1765 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. I. i. ii. (R.) The usual mode of elevating to the episcopal chair.
1877 W. Jones Finger-ring Lore 210 The episcopal ring..was considered a symbol of sacerdotal authority.
2. Pertaining to, or of the nature of, episcopacy. †Formerly also of persons: Advocating or supporting episcopacy.
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society > faith > church government > kinds of church government > episcopacy > [adjective]
prelatical1641
prelating1641
prelatic1642
prelatish1642
episcopal1651
episcoparian1691
episcopalian1768
Pisky1910
1651 R. Baxter Plain Script. Proof Infants Church-membership & Baptism 145 The Episcopall Party are far more confirmed in their way by it.
1692 N. Luttrell Diary in Brief Hist. Relation State Affairs (1857) II. 379 By removing diverse of the kirk party and putting in episcopall men.
1703 Clarendon's Hist. Rebellion II. ix. 580 The Maintenance and Support of the Episcopal Government in England.
1704 R. Nelson Compan. Festivals & Fasts ii. vii. 433 The Christian Church..gives full Testimony in behalf of Episcopal Government.
3. Of a church: Constituted on the principle of episcopacy. Often spec. (with initial capital) of the Anglican Church, of which in Scotland and the United States it is the ordinary designation; also with prefixed adjective in the names of certain other religious bodies, as Methodist Episcopal, Reformed Episcopal. Hence of buildings used for worship, clergy, forms of service, etc.: Belonging to such a church.In U.S. sometimes of persons, = episcopalian adj. 1.
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society > faith > sect > Christianity > Protestantism > Anglicanism > [adjective]
Anglican1598
Anglical1600
episcopal1752
episcopalian1768
Church of Englandist1818
churchy1843
church1853
1752 D. Hume Ess. & Treat. (1777) I. 69 The established clergy were episcopal.
1803 Gazetteer Scotl. at Kelso The episcopal chapel.
a1831 A. Knox Remains (1844) I. 59 The distress of the English Episcopal Church during the Usurpation.
1844 S. Wilberforce Hist. Protestant Episc. Church Amer. (1846) 437 It would be difficult to find, in the whole Episcopal communion throughout America, one specimen, etc.
B. n.
An adherent of episcopacy; one belonging to the Episcopal church; = episcopalian adj. and n.
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society > faith > church government > kinds of church government > episcopacy > [noun] > supporter of
bishopist1590
prelatist1641
cathedralist1644
episcoparian1649
episcopal1709
episcopalian1738
1709 J. Swift Let. conc. Sacramental Test 26 The Dissenting Episcopals.
1716 M. Davies Athenæ Britannicæ II. 310 Twenty Episcopals perchance to one Kirker of the Calvinistical Order.
1823 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 14 181 Good episcopal as I am, you have sickened me.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online June 2020).
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