regionaryadj.n.

1654 H. Hammond Vindic. Diss. conc. Episcopacie iii. viii. 190 If by properly Bishiops they meane Bishops of Cities, they say very true, for I affirme them to be, as their title assures me they were, Regionary Bishops, Vicarii and Proxies to the City Bishop.

1671 R. Bohun Disc. Wind 90 The Generall or Trade Winds are diffus'd though the Universe..but others are confin'd to as narrow a compasse; which they call the Regionary and Provinciall.

a1706 J. Evelyn Hist. Relig. (1850) I. ii. 104 They attributed their successes..to the tropical and regionary deities.

1712 F. Brokesby Hist. Govt. Primitive Church xiii. 205 The Regionary Presbyters may not make the Oblation in the City-Church, when the Bishop is present.

1790 E. Ledwich Antiq. Ireland 62 Their diocese were..regionary, and like the Irish Bishops of those times, they exercised their functions at large.

1833 J. Waterworth tr. F. Véron Rule Catholic Faith 16 Decisions passed, in what are called by St. Austin the regionary councils.

1857 J. F. Maguire Rome (1860) 253 Elementary education in Rome was entirely in the hands of the masters of the regionary, or district, schools, who were then partly paid by the State, and partly by a small weekly stipend from their pupils.

1897 B. T. Tilton tr. H. Tillmanns Text-bk. Surg. II. iii. xiv. 741 The recurrences are either continuous at the place of operation, if carcinoma tissue has been left behind, or regionary in consequence of renewed carcinoma growth in the cicatrix or in the immediate vicinity.

1900 H. Cushing in Ann. Surg. 85 1 Since our first cocaine operation..233 herniotomies have been performed, forty-nine of them under regionary anæsthesia.

1996 Frederick (Maryland) Post 20 July c5/4 He will have responsibility for the executive functioning of the Free Catholic Regionary Diocese of Washington.

2004 J. B. Lott Neighborhoods Augustan Rome iv. 87 The association of regions and regionary magistrates and neighborhoods and magistri became even stronger under the Augustan system.

1668 H. P. Cressy Church-hist. Brittany iii. xxiii. xvi. 603/2 These Writings were read before the synod by Gregory the Notary, Regionary and Nomenclator.

1847 Ecclesiol. 7 221 It should seem that the two regionary subdeacons stood right and left of the Archdeacon..and that the subdiaconus sequens..took them [sc. breads] out again to hand them to the regionaries.

1868 M. E. C. Walcott Sacred Archæol. 557 Subdeacons... Their number was..divided into three classes: palatines;..stationaries;..and regionaries, occupied in particular districts of the city.

1900 J. Thein Eccl. Dict. 152/2 Some clerics..wrote and expedited letters in their [sc. the Roman Pontiffs'] name... These clerics..were designated by the name of notaries, regionaries, and librarians.

1997 E. Duffy Saints & Sinners ii. 46 Gregory's father, Gordianus, was one of the Church's regionaries, the lay officials responsible for administering the temporalities of the Roman see.

1818 J. C. Hobhouse Hist. Illustr. 54 Panvinius dedicated his description of Rome, which he added to the old regionaries, to the Emperor Ferdinand, in 1558.

1897 Amer. Jrnl. Archaeol. 1 135 The more important early and mediaeval documents touching on the topography of Rome, beginning with the Constantinian regionaries.

1901 Trans. & Proc. Amer. Philol. Assoc. 32 53 The identification of the Apollo at the right with the Apollo caelispex of the Regionaries..is indisputable.

1992 O. F. Robinson Anc. Rome v. 66 A procurator might be appointed to have charge of the equivalent of the modern highway engineer's depot, the castra silicaria as the Regionary calls them.

1728 E. Chambers Cycl. (at cited word) A Regionary Bishop was properly a Missionary invested with an Episcopal Character, but without being attach'd to any particular See.

1869 G. F. Maclear Apostles Mediæval Europe viii. 113 He was consecrated regionary bishop, without any particular diocese, but with a general jurisdiction over all whom he might win over.

1963 H. Nethercot Last Four Lives Annie Besant viii. i. 308 On July 22, as a newly consecrated bishop in the Old Catholic Church, Wedgwood in turn consecrated C. W. Leadbeater..as Regionary Bishop for Australasia in the same church.

2005 Grimsby Evening Tel. (Nexis) 26 July 10 I am to serve as Regionary Bishop for the East of England in the Anglican Independent Communion.

1709 C. Place Adversaria 113 That the Pope first instituted Regionary or Arch-Deacons, according to the Number of Deacons mention'd in The Acts of the Apostles, may probably be true enough.

1854 N. Wiseman Fabiola ii. i. 138 Our holy Pope will be there, with the priests of the titles, the regionary deacons, the notaries [etc.].

1995 E. G. Hinson Church Triumphant xvi. 132/2 Roman regionary deacons appointed by Fabian to supervise the extensive charities of the city had no counterpart elsewhere.