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BISHOP
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
(chess) a piece that can be moved diagonally over unoccupied squares of the same color
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("bishop" is a kind of...):
chess piece; chessman (any of 16 white and 16 black pieces used in playing the game of chess)
Domain category:
chess; chess game (a board game for two players who move their 16 pieces according to specific rules; the object is to checkmate the opponent's king)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Port wine mulled with oranges and cloves
Classified under:
Nouns denoting foods and drinks
Hypernyms ("bishop" is a kind of...):
mulled wine (wine heated with sugar and spices and often citrus fruit)
Sense 3
Meaning:
A senior member of the Christian clergy having spiritual and administrative authority; appointed in Christian churches to oversee priests or ministers; considered in some churches to be successors of the twelve Apostles of Christ
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("bishop" is a kind of...):
priest (a clergyman in Christian churches who has the authority to perform or administer various religious rites; one of the Holy Orders)
Domain category:
Anglican Church; Anglican Communion; Church of England (the national church of England (and all other churches in other countries that share its beliefs); has its see in Canterbury and the sovereign as its temporal head)
Eastern Church; Eastern Orthodox; Eastern Orthodox Church; Orthodox Catholic Church; Orthodox Church (derived from the Byzantine Church and adhering to Byzantine rites)
Church of Rome; Roman Catholic; Roman Catholic Church; Roman Church; Western Church (the Christian Church based in the Vatican and presided over by a pope and an episcopal hierarchy)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "bishop"):
archbishop (a bishop of highest rank)
cardinal ((Roman Catholic Church) one of a group of more than 100 prominent bishops in the Sacred College who advise the Pope and elect new Popes)
diocesan (a bishop having jurisdiction over a diocese)
eparch (a bishop or metropolitan in charge of an eparchy in the Eastern Church)
exarch (a bishop in eastern Christendom who holds a place below a patriarch but above a metropolitan)
exarch (a bishop in one of several Eastern Orthodox Churches in North America)
primus (the presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church of Scotland)
suffragan; suffragan bishop (an assistant or subordinate bishop of a diocese)
vicar apostolic (a titular Roman Catholic bishop in a non-Catholic area)
Instance hyponyms:
Ambrose; Saint Ambrose; St. Ambrose ((Roman Catholic Church) Roman priest who became bishop of Milan; the first Church Father born and raised in the Christian faith; composer of hymns; imposed orthodoxy on the early Christian church and built up its secular power; a saint and Doctor of the Church (340?-397))
Berkeley; Bishop Berkeley; George Berkeley (Irish philosopher and Anglican bishop who opposed the materialism of Thomas Hobbes (1685-1753))
Eusebius; Eusebius of Caesarea (Christian bishop of Caesarea in Palestine; a church historian and a leading early Christian exegete (circa 270-340))
Ignatius; Saint Ignatius; St. Ignatius (bishop of Antioch who was martyred under the Roman Emperor Trajan (died 110))
Martin; St. Martin (French bishop who is a patron saint of France (died in 397))
Nicholas; Saint Nicholas; St. Nicholas (a bishop in Asia Minor who is associated with Santa Claus (4th century))
Bishop Ulfila; Bishop Ulfilas; Bishop Wulfila; Ulfila; Ulfilas; Wulfila (a Christian believed to be of Cappadocian descent who became bishop of the Visigoths in 341 and translated the Bible from Greek into Gothic; traditionally held to have invented the Gothic alphabet (311-382))
Derivation:
episcopal (denoting or governed by or relating to a bishop or bishops)
Context examples:
He’s talking to Lord Panmure, who can take his six bottles of claret and argue with a bishop after it.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The bishop hath need of a champion, because, if any cause be set to test of combat, it would scarce become his office to go down into the lists with leather and shield and cudgel to exchange blows with any varlet.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I fear, mon gar., that they have taught thee but badly at Beaulieu, for surely a bishop knows more of what is right and what is ill than an abbot can do, and I myself with these very eyes saw the Bishop of Lincoln hew into a Scottish hobeler with a battle-axe, which was a passing strange way of showing him that he loved him.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
