bishop
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
bishop/ˈbɪʃəp/
▶noun
- 1 a senior member of the Christian clergy, usually in charge of a diocese and empowered to confer holy orders.
- 2 a chess piece, typically with its top shaped like a mitre, that can move in any direction along a diagonal.
- 3 mulled and spiced wine.
– origin OE biscop, bisceop, based on Gk episkopos ‘overseer’, from epi ‘above’ + -skopos ‘-looking’.
'bishop' also found in these Oxford entries:
annates
- archbishop
- archdeacon
- B
- bishopric
- bishop suffragan
- Bp
- cathedral
- chair
- coadjutor
- collegiate church
- commissary
- consecrate
- consistory
- cope
- crook
- crosse
- crozier
- curate
- dimissory
- diocesan
- diocese
- enthrone
- eparch
- episcopal
- episcopate
- exarch
- faldstool
- familiar
- fianchetto
- Hilary term
- king's bishop
- letter missive
- Lord Bishop
- lordship
- metropolitan
- minor piece
- monition
- monitory
- Monseigneur
- Most Reverend
- order
- ordinary
- papal
- papist
- pastoral staff
- patriarch
- piece
- pontifical
