archbishopn.

Brit.

/ɑːtʃˈbɪʃəp/, U.S.

/ˌɑrtʃˈbɪʃəp/

Forms: Forms of prefix: Old English ærce-, erce-, Old English–Middle English arce-, Middle English erche-, Middle English ærche, Middle English–1500s arche-, Middle English erch-, erse-, arz-, Middle English ers-, Middle English ars-, Middle English– arch-. See forms of bishop n.

Etymology: < Latin archiepiscopum in its Romanic form *arcebiscobo; or perhaps rather a substitution of the prefix of this for héah in the earlier Old English equivalent héah-biscop ‘high-bishop.’ The southern form in Middle English was erche- < Old English ęrce-; erse-, ers-, ars-, arz-, were northern.

a. The chief bishop; the highest dignitary in an episcopal church, superintending the bishops of his province; a metropolitan.

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society > faith > church government > member of the clergy > clerical superior > archbishop > [noun]

archbishopc885

erchevesque?a1400

father1418

arch-flamena1530

archbish1560

hierarch1574

arch-prelate1597

grace1625

c885 K. Ælfred tr. Gregory Pastoral Care Pref. 6 Æt Plegmunde minum ærcebiscepe.

994 Anglo-Saxon Chron. Her forðferde Sigeric arcebiscop.

a1067 Charter in Cod. Dip. IV. 208 Eadweard cyng gret Stigand ercebiscop.

c1175 Cotton Hom. 237 Archebiscopes, and biscopes, prestes.

c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1978) l.12206 Þe ærche-biscop [c1300 Otho archebissop] of Lundene.

1297 R. Gloucester's Chron. 367 Erchebyssop of Euerwyk.

c1325 Metr. Hom. 86 Sa sorful was this erz~bischop.

c1330 R. Mannyng Chron. 73 Elred þe archbisshop of Ȝork.

c1386 G. Chaucer Friar's Tale 202 As to therchebisschop [v.r. þe erchbisshope] seynt Dunstan.

c1405 Lay Folks' Mass-bk. 64 For al ercebischops.

c1450 Nominale in Wright Voc. 209 Hic archyepiscopus, an ersbychope.

1480 W. Caxton Chron. Eng. 258 Metropolitanes and archebisshoppes.

1623 W. Shakespeare & J. Fletcher Henry VIII iii. ii. 74 We shall see him For it an Arch-byshop .

1782 J. Priestley Hist. Corruptions Christianity II. x. 237 The term Arch~bishop was first used by Athanasius.

1884 St. James's Gaz. 4 Feb. 6/2 Planned nearly thirty years ago by the Philological Society at the suggestion of Archbishop Trench.

b. Used to translate Latin Pontifex maximus.

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society > faith > church government > member of the clergy > clerical superior > [noun]

bishopc893

prelate?c1225

prince of priests?c1225

high priestc1400

pontificala1450

emperor clerkc1475

gentleman untrial1486

dignitya1525

Aaron1565

hierarch1574

presul1577

monsignor1579

church governor1588

pontiff1589

archbishop1600

monseigneur1601

monsignor1611

sheikh1613

protomist1619

Mar1622

hyperochality1637

protarch1654

pontifex1655

prelatical1658

dignitary1672

hierophanta1676

Monsig.1698

ecclesiarch1781

arch-pontiff1790

Mgr1848

Msgr.1868

patriarch-

1600 P. Holland tr. Livy Rom. Hist. xxviii. xxxviii. 697 d P. Licinius Crassus the Archbishop.

Derivatives

archˈbishopess n. [see -ess suffix¹] the wife of an archbishop.Apparently an isolated use.

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society > faith > church government > member of the clergy > clerical superior > archbishop > [noun] > wife of

archbishopess1781

1781 H. Walpole Let. 18 Dec. in Corr. (1965) XXXIII. 313 She set me down to whist with..the Archbishopess of Canterbury.

archˈbishophood n. [see -hood suffix] the rank or position of an archbishop.

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society > faith > church government > member of the clergy > clerical superior > archbishop > [noun] > office of

archbishopric994

archbishophoodc1449

palla1552

archbishopship1556

archiepiscopalship1606

Graceship1612

grace1631

archiepiscopacya1680

archiepiscopate1792

c1449 R. Pecock Repressor (1860) 426 Bischophode and archibischophode.

1846 T. Carlyle in O. Cromwell Lett. & Speeches (ed. 2) I. 306 There was little good to be got of his Archbishophood.

archˈbishopling n. [see -ling suffix¹] a little archbishop.

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society > faith > church government > member of the clergy > clerical superior > archbishop > [noun] > petty

archbishopling1851

1851 F. Palgrave Hist. Normandy & Eng. II. 191 The archbishopling, ‘Hugo Parvulus.’

archˈbishoply adj. [see -ly suffix¹] of or pertaining to an archbishop.

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1862 All Year Round 10 May 204 The disgrace of having his archbishoply orders countermanded.

archˈbishopship n. [see -ship suffix] the rank or position of an archbishop.

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