bishop
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
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Etymology: From Middle English bischop, bishop, bisshop, biscop, from Old English bisċop (“bishop”), from Proto-West Germanic *biskop, from Vulgar Latin (e)biscopus, from classical Latin episcopus (“overseer, supervisor”), from Ancient Greek ἐπίσκοπος (epískopos, “overseer”), from ἐπί (epí, “over”) + σκοπός (skopós, “watcher”), used in Greek and Latin both generally and as a title of civil officers. Cognate with all European terms for the position in various Christian churches; compare also Middle English bisp (“bishop”).
* The Tyndale Bible uses native English overseer instead.
Inflected forms:
form: bishops
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: byshop
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: bishops
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: bishoping
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: bishopping
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: bishoped
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: bishoped
pos: verb
tags: past
form: bishopped
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: bishopped
pos: verb
tags: past
form: byshop
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: An overseer of congregations: either any such overseer, generally speaking, or (in Eastern Orthodoxy, Catholicism, Anglicanism, etc.) an official in the church hierarchy (actively or nominally) governing a diocese, supervising the church's priests, deacons, and property in its territory.
pos: noun
examples: King James of blessed memory said, no Bishop, no King: it was not he, but others that added, No Ceremony, no Bishop.
St. Ignatius... In his 'Epiſtle to the Magneſians,' he exhorts them to do all things in the love of God, telling them, the Biſhop preſides in the place of God...
These ministers were at first confined to the three orders of bishops, priests, and deacons.
It is a fact now generally recognized by theologians of all shades of opinion, that in the language of the New Testament the same officer in the Church is called indifferently ‘bishop’ ἐπίσκοπος and ‘elder’ or ‘presbyter’ πρεσβύτερος.
The Jubilee Mass had a special solemnity due to the presence of two exiled Chinese bishops—Thomas Cardinal Tien, Archbishop of Peking, and Bishop Joseph Yuen, of Chu-ma-tien, Honan—as well as the recently named bishop of Taichung, Formosa, Most Rev. William Kupfer, MM, who was in the United States to attend the Maryknoll General Chapter.
gloss: An overseer of congregations: either any such overseer, generally speaking, or (in Eastern Orthodoxy, Catholicism, Anglicanism, etc.) an official in the church hierarchy (actively or nominally) governing a diocese, supervising the church's priests, deacons, and property in its territory.
pos: noun
tags: nonstandard
examples: The Caliphaes of the Sarasins were kings and chiefe bishops in their religion.
The Byshop of Egypt is called the Souldan.
[…] which explains the beheading of the Muslim Bishop of Lisbon, soon after the Reconquista.
The [holder of the office of] Imam [of Monrovia] is commonly referred to, both in conversation and in the press, as ‘the Muslim Bishop’.
gloss: The holder of the Greek or Roman position of episcopus, supervisor over the public dole of grain, etc.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
examples: They gave away corn, not cash; and Cicero was made bishop, or overseer, of this public victualling.
gloss: Any watchman, inspector, or overlooker.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
examples: There is no place we see privileged from temptations, no desert so solitary but the devil will seek it out; no pinnacle so high but the devil is a bishop over it, to visit and overlook it.
gloss: A chief of the Festival of Fools or St. Nicholas Day.
pos: noun
gloss: The chess piece denoted ♗ or ♝ which moves along diagonal lines and developed from the shatranj alfil ("elephant") and was originally known as the aufil or archer in English.
pos: noun
examples: The Bishoppes some name Alphins, some fooles, and some name them Princes; other some call them Archers.
A Bishop or Archer, who is commonly figured with his head cloven.
gloss: Any of various African birds of the genus Euplectes; a kind of weaverbird closely related to the widowbirds.
pos: noun
gloss: A ladybug or ladybird, beetles of the family Coccinellidae.
pos: noun
tags: dialectal
examples: ‘Bishop, Bishop-Barnabee,
Tell me when my wedding shall be;
If it be to-morrow day,
Ope your wings and fly away.
gloss: A flowering plant of the genus Bifora.
pos: noun
gloss: A sweet drink made from wine, usually with oranges, lemons, and sugar; mulled and spiced port.
pos: noun
examples: Well roasted, with Sugar and Wine in a Cup,
They'll make a sweet Bishop.
A bowl of that liquor called Bishop, which Johnson had always liked.
Spicy bishop, drink divine.
gloss: A bustle.
pos: noun
tags: US
archaic
examples: If, by her bishop, or her 'grace' alone,
A genuine lady, or a church, is known.
gloss: A children's smock or pinafore.
pos: noun
tags: UK
archaic
dialectal
examples: Here; tak him, an wesh him; an' put him a clen bishop on.
gloss: To act as a bishop, to perform the duties of a bishop, especially to confirm another's membership in the church.
pos: verb
examples: Se bisceop biþ gesett... to bisceopgenne cild.
Wanne the bisschop, bisschopeth the
Tokene of marke he set on the.
The Marquis of Buckingham and his wife were both bishopped, or confirmed by the Bishop of London.
Harding and Saunders Bishop it in England.
Here too physical effects were vulgarly attributed to the ceremony… as evidenced by the case of the old Norfolk woman who claimed to have been ‘bishopped’ seven times, because she found it helped her rheumatism.
gloss: To act as a bishop, to perform the duties of a bishop, especially to confirm another's membership in the church.
pos: verb
tags: broadly
obsolete
examples: Why sent they it by Felton to be bishoped at Paules?
He... chose to bear The Name of Fool confirm'd, and Bishop'd by the Fair.
gloss: To make a bishop.
pos: verb
examples: 1549, H. Latimer, 2nd Serm. before Kynges Maiestie, 5th Serm. sig. Pviv
Thys hathe bene often tymes... sene in preachers before they were byshoppyd or benificed.
There may be other... matters to occupy the thoughts of one about to be bishopped.
gloss: To provide with bishops.
pos: verb
tags: rare
examples: Italy would be well bishoped if her episcopacy... did not exceed fifty-nine.
gloss: To permit food (especially milk) to burn while cooking (from bishops' role in the inquisition or as mentioned in the quotation below, of horses).
pos: verb
tags: UK
dialectal
examples: If the porage be burned to, or the meate ouer rosted, we say the bishop hath put his foote in the potte or the bishop hath played the cooke, because the bishops burn who they lust and whosoever displeaseth them.
It will be as bad as the Bishops foot in the broth.
The Cream is burnt to.
Betty. Why, Madam, the Bishop has set his Foot in it.
She canna stomach it if it's bishopped e'er so little.
Th' milk's bishopped again!
gloss: To make a horse seem younger, particularly by manipulation of its teeth.
pos: verb
tags: broadly
examples: 1727, R. Bradley, Family Dict. at "Horse"
This way of making a Horse look young is... called Bishoping.
Bishopped, or To bishop. A term among horſe dealers, for burning the mark into a horſe's tooth, after he has loſt it by age... It is a common ſaying of milk that is burnt to, that the biſhop has fet his foot in it. Formerly, when a biſhop paſſed through a village, all the inhabitants ran out of their houſes to ſolicit his bleſſing, even leaving their milk, &c. on the fire, to take its chance; which, when burnt to, was ſaid to be biſhopped.
I found his teeth had been filed down and bishoped with the greatest neatness and perfection.
Synonyms: diocesan bishop
suffragan bishop
ordinary
hierarch
consecrator
Related words: Bp.
bishopess
episcopal
Episcopalian
episcopate
bishopric
your Excellency
my Lord
my Lord Bishop
Right Reverend
see
catholicon
katholikon
sobor
alb
amice
biretta
buskins
cappa magna
cassalb
cassock
chasuble
choir dress
cope
dalmatic
epimanikia
episcopal gloves
episcopal sandals
epitrachil
mantya
mitre
omophor
phelonion
rochet
sakkos
sticharion
stole
tunicle
vestment
zucchetto
cathedra
crozier
dikirion
engolpion
epigonation
episcopal ring
fashia
maniple
orletz
panagia
pectoral cross
trikirion
zone
your Grace
diocese
bugia
Derived words: Bishop
Angola black bishop
bishop-bird
bishop bird
black bishop
black-winged red bishop
Cape bishop
fire-crowned bishop
fire-fronted bishop
golden-backed bishop
northern black bishop
northern red bishop
orange bishop
red bishop
southern black bishop
southern red bishop
yellow bishop
yellow-crowned bishop
Zanzibar red bishop
abbot-bishop
antibishop
archbishop
assistant-bishop
assistant bishop
as the actress said to the bishop
auxiliary bishop
bad bishop
bash the bishop
beat the bishop
Bishop Auckland
Bishop Barker
Bishop Burton
bishop-coadjutor
bishop coadjutor
bishop-commissioner
bishop-designate
bishop-designed
bishopdom
bishop-elect
bishop emeritus
bishopess
bishopful
bishophood
bishoping
bishopist
bishopless
bishoplet
bishoplike
bishopling
bishoply
Bishop Monkton
bishop of Rome
bishop pawn
bishopric
bishoprick
Bishopric of the Forces
Bishop's Bible
Bishops' Bible
Bishops Cannings
Bishop's Castle
Bishop's Cleeve
Bishop's Clyst
bishop's collar
bishop's court
bishop-seat
bishop-see
Bishop's Falls
Bishopsgate
bishopship
Bishop's Hull
Bishop's Itchington
bishop sleeve
bishop's length
Bishops Lydeard
Bishop's Nympton
bishop's sleeve
Bishop's Stortford
Bishop's Tawton
Bishopsteignton
Bishop's Waltham
Bishop to the Forces
bishopwick
Bishop Wilton
bop the bishop
boy bishop
boy-bishop
cardinal bishop
Cheriton Bishop
coadjutor bishop
cobishop
Compton Bishop
diocesan bishop
even-bishop
flog the bishop
flying bishop
French bishop
good bishop
highbishop
Lord Bishop
metropolitan bishop
missionary bishop
presiding bishop
prince-bishop
prince bishop
ruling bishop
said the actress to the bishop
smoking bishop
suffragan bishop
Synod of Bishops
titular bishop
unbishop
Wickham Bishops
bishop-leaves
bishop manzanita
bishop milkvetch
bishop pine
bishop plover
bishop's cap
bishop's-cap
bishop's elder
bishop's goutweed
bishop's hat
bishop's lace
bishop's leaves
bishop's lotus
bishop's milkvetch (Astragalus episcopus
bishop's mitre
bishop's mitre shield bug
bishops's hat cactus
Bishops sugarbush
bishop's toad
bishop's torch
bishop's weed
bishopsweed
bishop's-weed
bishop's-wort
bishop's wort
bishop toothcarp
bishop-weed
bishop wood
bishop wort
false bishop's weed
five-faced bishop
mock bishopweed
oval-leaf bishop's-cap
prairie bishop
twoleaf bishop's cap
bishop it
Translations:
lang: Abkhaz
word: аҷҟәандар
roman: ačʼqʷʼandar
lang: Afrikaans
word: biskop
lang: Albanian
word: peshkop
lang: Albanian
word: upeshk
lang: Arabic
word: أُسْقُف
roman: ʔusquf
lang: Armenian
word: եպիսկոպոս
roman: episkopos
lang: Old Armenian
word: եպիսկոպոս
roman: episkopos
lang: Asturian
word: obispu
lang: Azerbaijani
word: yepiskop
lang: Belarusian
word: епі́скап
roman: jepískap
lang: Belarusian
word: бі́скуп
roman: bískup
lang: Bengali
word: বিশপ
roman: biśop
lang: Central Bikol
word: obispo
lang: Breton
word: eskob
lang: Bulgarian
word: епи́скоп
roman: epískop
lang: Bulgarian
word: влади́ка
roman: vladíka
lang: Catalan
word: bisbe
lang: Cebuano
word: obispo
lang: Chinese Cantonese
word: 主教
roman: zyu² gaau³
lang: Chinese
word: 主教
roman: zh-min-nan
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 主教
roman: zhǔjiào
lang: Coptic
word: ⲉⲡⲓⲥⲕⲟⲡⲟⲥ
roman: episkopos
lang: Czech
word: biskup
lang: Dalmatian
word: pascu
lang: Danish
word: biskop
lang: Danish
word: bisp
lang: Dutch
word: bisschop
lang: Esperanto
word: episkopo
lang: Esperanto
word: episkopino
lang: Estonian
word: piiskop
lang: Faroese
word: biskupur
lang: Faroese
word: bispur
lang: Finnish
word: piispa
lang: Franco-Provençal
word: èvèque
lang: French
word: évêque
lang: Saterland Frisian
word: Biskop
lang: Friulian
word: vescul
lang: Galician
word: bispo
lang: Georgian
word: ეპისკოპოსი
roman: eṗisḳoṗosi
lang: German
word: Bischof
lang: German
word: Bischöfin
lang: Greek
word: επίσκοπος
roman: epískopos
lang: Ancient Greek
word: ἐπίσκοπος
roman: epískopos
lang: Haitian Creole
word: evèk
lang: Hawaiian
word: pīhopa
lang: Hebrew
word: בִּישׁוֹף
roman: bishóf
lang: Hindi
word: बिशप
roman: biśap
lang: Hindi
word: धर्माध्यक्ष
roman: dharmādhyakṣ
lang: Hungarian
word: püspök
lang: Icelandic
word: biskup
lang: Ido
word: episkopo
lang: Ido
word: episkopulo
lang: Ido
word: episkopino
lang: Indonesian
word: uskup
lang: Ingrian
word: jeppiskoppi
lang: Ingrian
word: arhirei
lang: Irish
word: easpag
lang: Italian
word: vescovo
lang: Italian
word: vescova
lang: Italian
word: presule
lang: Japanese
word: 主教
roman: shukyō
lang: Japanese
word: 司教
roman: shikyō
lang: Kashubian
word: biskùp
lang: Kazakh
word: епископ
roman: episkop
lang: Khmer
word: អេវ៉ែក
roman: ʼeevaek
lang: Korean
word: 주교
roman: jugyo
lang: Northern Kurdish
word: metran
lang: Northern Kurdish
word: isqof
lang: Kyrgyz
word: епископ
roman: yepiskop
lang: Latin
word: episcopus
lang: Latin
word: episcopa
lang: Latvian
word: bīskaps
lang: Lithuanian
word: vyskupas
lang: Macedonian
word: епископ
roman: episkop
lang: Macedonian
word: бискуп
roman: biskup
lang: Macedonian
word: владика
roman: vladika
lang: Malay
word: biskop
lang: Malay
word: uskup
lang: Malayalam
word: മെത്രാൻ
roman: metrāṉ
lang: Maltese
word: isqof
lang: Manx
word: aspick
lang: Māori
word: pīhopa
lang: Marathi
word: बिशप
roman: biśap
lang: Middle English
word: bischop
lang: Mongolian
word: хүрээний тэргүүн
roman: xüreenii tergüün
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: biskop
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: bisp
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: biskop
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: bisp
lang: Occitan
word: avesque
lang: Ojibwe
word: gichi-mekadewikwanaye
lang: Ojibwe
word: anama'e-ogimaa
lang: Church Slavic
word: єпискоупъ
roman: episkupŭ
lang: Church Slavic
word: бискоупъ
roman: biskupŭ
lang: Church Slavic
word: владꙑка
roman: vladyka
lang: Old Prussian
word: bīskups
lang: Ossetian
word: алчер
roman: alḱer
lang: Pashto
word: اسقف
roman: osqóf
lang: Persian
word: اسقف
roman: osqof
lang: Persian
word: سکوبا
roman: sokubâ
lang: Plautdietsch
word: Eltesta (Ältester m)
lang: Polish
word: biskup
lang: Portuguese
word: bispo
lang: Romanian
word: episcop
lang: Romanian
word: vlădică
lang: Romansh
word: uvestg
lang: Russian
word: епи́скоп
roman: jepískop
lang: Northern Sami
word: bisma
lang: Skolt-Sami
word: aa´rhel
lang: Samoan
word: 'epikopō
lang: Sanskrit
word: धर्माध्यक्ष
roman: dharmādhyakṣa
lang: Sardinian
word: obíscu
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: easbaig
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: ѐпископ
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: би̏скуп
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: èpiskop
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: bȉskup
lang: Sicilian
word: vìscuvu
lang: Sicilian
word: viscu
lang: Slovak
word: biskup
lang: Slovene
word: škòf
lang: Lower Sorbian
word: biskup
lang: Upper Sorbian
word: biskop
lang: Upper Sorbian
word: biskup
lang: Spanish
word: obispo
lang: Swahili
word: askofu
lang: Swedish
word: biskop
lang: Tagalog
word: obispo
lang: Tajik
word: усқуф
roman: usquf
lang: Tajik
word: епископ
roman: yepiskop
lang: Tamil
word: ஆயர்
roman: āyar
lang: Tatar
word: епископ
roman: yepisqop
lang: Tatar
word: әскаф
roman: äsqaf
lang: Thai
word: บิชอป
roman: bì-chɔ́p
lang: Thai
word: สังฆราช
roman: sǎng-ká-râat
lang: Thai
word: มุขนายก
lang: Tok Pisin
word: bisop
lang: Turkish
word: piskopos
lang: Ottoman Turkish
word: اسقف
roman: uskuf
lang: Turkmen
word: ýepiskop
lang: Ukrainian
word: єпи́скоп
roman: jepýskop
lang: Urdu
word: اسقف
roman: usquf
lang: Urdu
word: بشپ
roman: biśap
lang: Uyghur
word: ئېپىسكوپ
roman: ëpiskop
lang: Uyghur
word: باش روھانىي
roman: bash rohaniy
lang: Uzbek
word: yepiskop
lang: Vietnamese
word: giám mục
lang: Vilamovian
word: bisküp
lang: Volapük
word: bijop
lang: Volapük
word: hibijop
lang: Volapük
word: jibijop
lang: Waray-Waray
word: obispo
lang: Welsh
word: esgob
lang: Yiddish
word: ביסקופּ
roman: biskup
lang: Yiddish
word: בישאָף
roman: bishof
lang: Yup'ik
word: allgiliyaq