bishophoodn.
/ˈbɪʃəphʊd/ The office, condition, dignity, or rank of a bishop.
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c1000 Ags. Ps. cviii[ix]. 8 His bisceophad brucan feondas.
1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) 1 Tim. Prol. The apostle..techith of the ordynaunce of byschophood.
c1383 J. Wyclif Sel. Wks. III. 315 He mynistride [MS. mysurde] þe ordre of bischopod.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 21248 For his liuelade Siþen þan toke he bischophade.
c1449 R. Pecock Repressor (1860) 380 Officis of bischophode or louȝer preesthode.
c1475 (?c1400) Apol. Lollard Doctr. (1842) 2 He þat desiriþ bischophed, he desiriþ a good werk.
1849 D. Rock Church of our Fathers IV. ii. 47 Before he may reach the bishophood.
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