Bishop

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