Definition:
- (n.) A spiritual overseer, superintendent, or director.
- (n.) In the Roman Catholic, Greek, and Anglican or Protestant Episcopal churches, one ordained to the highest order of the ministry, superior to the priesthood, and generally claiming to be a successor of the Apostles. The bishop is usually the spiritual head or ruler of a diocese, bishopric, or see.
- (n.) In the Methodist Episcopal and some other churches, one of the highest church officers or superintendents.
- (n.) A piece used in the game of chess, bearing a representation of a bishop's miter; -- formerly called archer.
- (n.) A beverage, being a mixture of wine, oranges or lemons, and sugar.
- (n.) An old name for a woman's bustle.
- (v. t.) To admit into the church by confirmation; to confirm; hence, to receive formally to favor.
- (v. t.) To make seem younger, by operating on the teeth; as, to bishop an old horse or his teeth.
Compare bishop with other words:
bishop vs. mullah
bishop vs. father
bishop vs. episcopant
bishop vs. gremial
bishop vs. luciferian
bishop vs. procuration
bishop vs. nonjuring
bishop vs. preconize
bishop vs. institutor
bishop vs. provisor
bishop vs. faldstool
bishop vs. episcopicide
bishop vs. chesspiece
bishop vs. collative
bishop vs. concelebrate
bishop vs. synodal
bishop vs. cathedra
bishop vs. paulian
bishop vs. catholicos
bishop vs. pastor
bishop vs. cannon
bishop vs. canon
bishop vs. elephant
bishop vs. minister
bishop vs. chimere
bishop vs. coadjutor
bishop vs. exarch
bishop vs. commissary
bishop vs. pontifical
bishop vs. suffragan
archdeacon vs. bishop
bishop vs. dimissory
bishop vs. crosier
bishop vs. consistory
bishop vs. sacring
bishop vs. clearance
bishop vs. diocesan
bishop vs. tribune
bish vs. bishop
bishop vs. example
bishop vs. churchman
bishop vs. mantle
bishop vs. collegial
bishop vs. palatine
benediction vs. bishop
bishop vs. lord
bishop vs. penitentiary
bishop vs. verger
bishop vs. prelate
bishop vs. pontiff
bishop vs. cope
bishop vs. zone
bishop vs. metropolitan
bishop vs. cathedral
bishop vs. lawn
bishop vs. dean
apse vs. bishop
bishop vs. surrogate
bishop vs. presentation
autonomy vs. bishop
bishop vs. pastoral
bishop vs. pontificate
bishop vs. exchange
bishop vs. primus
bishop vs. pope
bishop vs. nipper
bishop vs. corner
bishop vs. cavity
bishop vs. horse
bishop vs. oval
bishop vs. confirm
bishop vs. church
bishop vs. confirmation
bishop vs. patriarch
bishop vs. primate
bishop vs. episcopal
bishop vs. episcopalian
bishop vs. guru
bishop vs. rabbi
bishop vs. imam
bishop vs. bishopric
archbishop vs. bishop
bishop vs. piece
bishop vs. title
bishop vs. diocese
bishop vs. duchy
bishop vs. exeat
bishop vs. priest
bishop vs. ordinate
bishop vs. see