archbishn.
/ɑːtʃˈbɪʃ/, U.S. /ɑrtʃˈbɪʃ/ In later use, chiefly colloquial (and often humorous).
= archbishop n.
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archbishopc885
erchevesque?a1400
father1418
arch-flamena1530
archbish1560
hierarch1574
arch-prelate1597
grace1625
1560 J. Daus tr. J. Sleidane Commentaries Table sig. Ooqiv Themperour citeth the Archbish. eod.
1612 in M. C. Questier Newslett. Archpresbyterate G. Birkhead (1998) 203 To use the Archbish. his owne words.
1701 W. Kennett Cowell's Interpreter (new ed.) at Conge d'Ellire Archbish. Anselm deny'd this Royal Prerogative.
1850 Sc. Mag. Sept. 451 S. Cyprian, Archbish. of Carth. and M.
1925 P. G. Wodehouse Sam the Sudden xiii. 96 Do you mean to say..that if Soapy was sitting in with the Archbishop of Canterbury on a plan for skinning a sucker, the archbish wouldn't split Even Stephen?
1940 E. Pound Cantos LII–LXXI lx. 90 And the archbish of Antioch spent a year in Canton.
1981 C. James in Observer 2 Aug. The Archbish predicted that..he would soon get over his nerves.
2017 Evening Standard (Nexis) 9 June 15 I asked the archbish if there's a connection between the flight from Christianity and the way it's depicted.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2018; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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