(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.
Example Sentences:
(1) The statutory age of retirement for clergy is 70, although vicars’ terms can be extended by his or her bishop.
(2) McDaniel supported his 2003 election as bishop of New Hampshire, which, caused conservative Episcopalians in the US to break away and was the subject of intense debate in the worldwide Anglican church.
(3) The nucleotide and amino acid sequences of the M RNA of Bunyamwera virus (prototype of the serogroup) and snowshow hare and La Crosse viruses (California serogroup) (Lees et al., 1986; Eshita and Bishop, 1984; Grady et al., 1987) were compared to those of Germiston virus.
(4) The government's civil partnership bill to sanction same-sex unions was thrown into confusion last night after a cross-party coalition of peers and bishops voted to extend the bill's benefits to a wide range of people who live together in a caring family relationship.
(5) The Rt Rev Stephen Lowe, the Bishop of Hulme, who speaks for the Anglican church on urban life and faith, is less sanguine.
(6) It is a relatively junior role, which will make her an assistant bishop in the diocese of Chester.
(7) That is the problem with those who refuse to accept women’s ministry as priests and bishops.
(8) These conserved sequences are identical to those previously reported for BTV types 10 and 11 (A. Kiuchi, C. D. Rao, and P. Roy (1983), "Double-Stranded RNA Viruses" (R. W. Compans and D. H. L. Bishop, eds.
(9) Macfarlane said he did not leak the contents of last week’s cabinet meeting - but he appeared to vouch for the veracity of the reported divisions when he added: “There has certainly been some very accurate statements made in newspapers in relation to the discussions that were had in cabinet.” The foreign affairs minister, Julie Bishop, said the leak “absolutely did not come from me” and although it was not the first cabinet in Australian history to have had leaks “this was particularly disappointing because it went into such detail”.
(10) The Rev Tim Stephens, the Bishop of Leicester, said it was "most troubling that the government and opposition have together in their proceeding with this measure led to division, not only within the country where polls consistently show half the population against this change, but also between the political class and the vast majority of practicing religious people".
(11) This is consistent with and confirms our previous finding [Weber, A., Northrop, J., Bishop, M. F., Ferrone, F. A., & Mooseker, M. S. (1987) Biochemistry (preceding paper in the issue)] that at an actin-villin ratio of 3 a significant fraction of the villin is free and that a series of steady states exist between villin-actin complexes of increasing size and G-actin.
(12) Or the checked shirt of the “hipster Labor lawyer”, as the foreign minister, Julie Bishop, described him.
(13) He is an Anglican bishop who has shown his moral strength to the world better than anybody.
(14) The study aimed at examining the effectiveness of labor induction in term pregnant nulliparas with the premature rupture of the membranes (PRM) and unriped cervix (Bishop less than 6).
(15) • The Catholic church's near monopoly of influence in education means that the ultimate power in each school is the local Catholic bishop.
(16) The Irish people, once so willing to heed to the clergy, decisively determined that Catholic bishops possess little credibility these days when it comes to knowing what’s in the best interests of children.
(17) The likes of almond, blackberry and crocus first made way for analogue, block graph and celebrity in the Oxford Junior Dictionary in 2007, with protests at the time around the loss of a host of religious words such as bishop, saint and sin.
(18) I’m standing strongly behind Bronwyn Bishop as the Speaker and I would call on all my colleagues whether they’re in the cabinet or on the backbench to stand firm against the demands by the Labor party to remove the Speaker,” Pyne said.
(19) I don't believe they are serious about opening the door to someone in a civil partnership becoming a bishop.
(20) And while one may think that the bishops of the Church of England don’t quite have the sex appeal of Russell Brand, we think that we should counter it.” While the bishops stress that their letter is not intended as “a shopping list of policies we would like to see”, they do advocate a number of specific steps, including a re-examination of the need for Trident, a retention of the commitment to funding overseas aid and a reassessment of areas where regulations fuel “the common perception of ‘health and safety gone mad’”.
Dean
Definition:
(n.) A dignitary or presiding officer in certain ecclesiastical and lay bodies; esp., an ecclesiastical dignitary, subordinate to a bishop.
(n.) The collegiate officer in the universities of Oxford and Cambridge, England, who, besides other duties, has regard to the moral condition of the college.
(n.) The head or presiding officer in the faculty of some colleges or universities.
(n.) A registrar or secretary of the faculty in a department of a college, as in a medical, or theological, or scientific department.
(n.) The chief or senior of a company on occasion of ceremony; as, the dean of the diplomatic corps; -- so called by courtesy.
Example Sentences:
(1) The PUP founder made the comments at a voters’ forum and press conference during an open day held at his Palmer Coolum Resort, where he invited the electorate to see his giant robotic dinosaur park, memorabilia including his car collection and a concert by Dean Vegas, an Elvis impersonator.
(2) The only way we can change it, is if we get people to look in and understand what is happening.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Dean, Clare and their baby son.
(3) The club then brought in Darren Randolph, Dean Brill, Scott Flinders, Roman Larrieu, and Simon Royce on loan at various times."
(4) Dean Baquet, the managing editor in question, does admit in the piece that walking out was not perhaps the best thing for a senior editor like him to do.
(5) Crocker had retired from the government in April 2009, becoming dean of the Bush school of government and public service at Texas A&M University.
(6) A Benn family spokesperson said: "At the suggestion of the Speaker of the House of Commons and by agreement with the Lords Speaker, Black Rod and the dean of Westminster Abbey, an approach was made by Black Rod to the palace for agreement that Mr Benn's body rest in the chapel of St Mary Undercroft on the night before his funeral.
(7) The findings can be a starting point for faculty-dean dialogue about tenure expections.
(8) Nonetheless, the NSA persuaded Erwin Griswold, the former dean of Harvard law school, the then solicitor general of the United States, to knowingly lie to the United States supreme court that it was still a secret.
(9) The appearance of the enamel of their permanent teeth was assessed 11 years later (children aged 12-15 years) and recorded using Dean's and the FDI indices.
(10) Dean, who started working at the flagship A&F store on 11 June last year, told the tribunal: "I had been bullied out of my job.
(11) The second episode, that of Dean Vaughan, has been reconstructed for the first time using the Broadlands Manuscripts of Lord Palmerston.
(12) Yu Hongchen, the vice dean of China’s football management centre, said Team China players had been left “heartbroken” by the defeat to Syria.
(13) Dean's system, however, has several shortcomings, principally its inability to measure fluorosis in different tooth surfaces.
(14) As dean of the Medical Faculty (1930-1931) or prodean (1931-1932) he had to resolve under complicated conditions of the general economic crisis many difficult problems of its further development and concept.
(15) The chairman is Lord Currie, dean of the business school at City University in London.
(16) 98, 491-505 (1984)] and G. L. Rice, J. W. Gray, P. N. Dean, and W. C. Dewey [Cancer Res.
(17) During the 1982-83 academic year, ten members of the College of Health Deans participated in a five-round Delphi study to identify objectives for schools of the allied health professions through the year 1991.
(18) Separately, in February a group of junior doctors at Tameside privately raised a number of concerns with the postgraduate medical dean for Greater Manchester, Jackie Hayden.
(19) Neighbor Dean McDaniel said he’d known the family for nearly 17 years, and remembered Abdulazeez as an elementary school student and teenager.
(20) Responses from faculty (nominated by their deans to answer the survey) from 82% of the medical schools indicated considerable agreement between the basic science teachers and clinical teachers on the relative importance of a set of biomedical concepts, and showed relatively minor levels of disagreement on how difficult these concepts are.