单词 | metropolitically |
释义 | metropoliticallyadv. 1. As or in the capacity of a metropolitan bishop. ΘΚΠ society > faith > church government > member of the clergy > clerical superior > metropolitan > [adverb] metropolitically1637 1637 J. Bastwick Letany i. 13/1 If Father William of Canterbury, think that I am affraid of him, he is metropolitically mistaken. 1644 W. Laud in D. Neal Hist. Purit. (1736) III. 205 In all churches, and in all other places where you visit metropolitically. 1834 Edinb. Rev. Jan. 479 Visiting metropolitically the body of both universities. 1977 Church Times 21 Oct. 2/4 The area bishops will in most respects act as diocesans in their areas, and the Bishop of London will act metropolitically. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > territorial jurisdiction or areas subject to > [adverb] > as a mother state metropolitically1723 1723 H. Rowlands Mona Antiqua Restaurata 78 That the Druids resided Originally and Metropolitically in the Isle of Mona. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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