bishop : Idioms & Phrases

• the whole body of English prelates assembled in council.

Webster 1913

• noun Irish philosopher and Anglican bishop who opposed the materialism of Thomas Hobbes (1685-1753)
  George Berkeley; Berkeley.
  

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• (R. C. Ch.), a bishop of a see which does not actually exist; one who has the office of bishop, without especial jurisdiction. Shipley.

Webster 1913

• noun the head of the Roman Catholic Church
  Roman Catholic Pope; pontiff; pope; Catholic Pope; Vicar of Christ; Holy Father.
  

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• noun two-needled or three-needled pinon mostly of northwestern California coast
  Pinus muricata; bishop pine.
  

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Bish"op sleeve`

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1. A wide sleeve, once worn by women.

Webster 1913

• noun a Christian believed to be of Cappadocian descent who became bishop of the Visigoths in 341 and translated the Bible from Greek into Gothic; traditionally held to have invented the Gothic alphabet (311-382)
  Bishop Ulfila; Ulfilas; Wulfila; Ulfila; Bishop Ulfilas.
  

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• noun a Christian believed to be of Cappadocian descent who became bishop of the Visigoths in 341 and translated the Bible from Greek into Gothic; traditionally held to have invented the Gothic alphabet (311-382)
  Bishop Ulfila; Ulfilas; Wulfila; Ulfila; Bishop Ulfilas.
  

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• noun a Christian believed to be of Cappadocian descent who became bishop of the Visigoths in 341 and translated the Bible from Greek into Gothic; traditionally held to have invented the Gothic alphabet (311-382)
  Bishop Ulfila; Ulfilas; Wulfila; Ulfila; Bishop Ulfilas.
  

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• noun any of various rhizomatous perennial herbs of the genus Mitella having a capsule resembling a bishop's miter
  mitrewort; miterwort.
  

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Bish"op's cap`

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1. (Bot.) A plant of the genus Mitella; miterwort. Longfellow.

Webster 1913

• noun slow-growing creeping plant with semi-evergreen leaves on erect wiry stems; used as ground cover
  barrenwort; Epimedium grandiflorum.
  

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Bish"op's length`

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1. A canvas for a portrait measuring 58 by 94 inches. The half bishop measures 45 of 56.

Webster 1913

• noun two-needled or three-needled pinon mostly of northwestern California coast
  Pinus muricata; bishop pine.
  

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• noun a throne that is the official chair of a bishop
  cathedra.
  

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Bish"op's-weed` noun

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1. (Bot.) (a) An umbelliferous plant of the genus Ammi. (b) Goutweed (Ægopodium podagraria).

Webster 1913

Bish"op's-wort` noun

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1. (Bot.) Wood betony (Stachys betonica); also, the plant called fennel flower (Nigella Damascena), or devil-in-a-bush.

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Bish"op-stool` noun

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1. A bishop's seat or see.

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• a boy (usually a chorister) elected bishop, in old Christian sports, and invested with robes and other insignia. He practiced a kind of mimicry of the ceremonies in which the bishop usually officiated.

Webster 1913

• (R. C. Ch. & ch. of Eng.), a law officer appointed to hold the bishop's court in his diocese, and to assist him in matter of ecclesiastical law.

Webster 1913

• noun small plant with leaves in a basal cluster and tiny greenish flowers in slender racemes; northwestern North America to California and Colorado
  Mitella pentandra.
  

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• (Prot. Epis. Ch.), one of the two bodies composing a general convertion, the other being House of Clerical and Lay Deputies.

Webster 1913

• (Bot.), a genus of slender umbelliferous herbs (Discopleura) growing in wet places.

Webster 1913

• noun an assistant or subordinate bishop of a diocese
  suffragan.
  

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• (R. C. Ch.), a term officially substituted in 1882 for bishop in partibus.

Webster 1913