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Definition bishop

Etymology 1

From Middle English bischop, bishop, bisshop, biscop, from Old English biscop (“bishop”), from British Latin *biscopo or Vulgar Latin (e)biscopus, from classical Latin episcopus (“overseer, supervisor”), from Ancient Greek ????????? (epískopos, “overseer”), from ??? (epí, “over”) + ?????? (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 (see below); compare bisp.

Noun

bishop (plural bishops)

1. (Christianity) 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.
   1. (religion, obsolete) A similar official or chief priest in another religion.
   2. (obsolete) Any watchman, inspector, or overlooker.
   3. (obsolete) The holder of the Greek or Roman position of episcopus, supervisor over the public dole of grain, etc.
   4. The chief of the Festival of Fools or St. Nicholas Day.
2. (chess) 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.
3. Any of various African birds of the genus Euplectes; a kind of weaverbird closely related to the widowbirds.
4. (dialectal) A ladybug or ladybird, beetles of the family Coccinellidae.
5. (alcoholic beverages?) A sweet drink made from wine, usually with oranges, lemons, and sugar; mulled and spiced port.
6. (US, archaic) A bustle.
7. (Britain, dialectal, archaic) A children's smock or pinafore.

Verb

bishop (third-person singular simple present bishops, present participle bishoping or bishopping, simple past and past participle bishoped or bishopped)

1. (Christianity) To act as a bishop, to perform the duties of a bishop, especially to confirm another's membership in the church.
   1. (by extension, jocularly, obsolete) To confirm (in its other senses).
2. (Christianity) To make a bishop.
3. (Christianity, rare) To provide with bishops.
4. (Britain, dialectal) To permit food (especially milk) to burn while cooking (from bishops' role in the inquisition or as mentioned in the quotation below, of horses).
5. (by extension, of horses) To make a horse seem younger, particularly by manipulation of its teeth.

Etymology 2

Eponymous, from the surname Bishop.

Verb

bishop (third-person singular simple present bishops, present participle bishoping or bishopping, simple past and past participle bishoped or bishopped)

1. (Britain, colloquial, obsolete) To murder by drowning.

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