archbishop

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  1. noun A bishop of the highest rank, heading an archdiocese or province.

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  • Besides this, at the instant when the closed fist of the archbishop was applied to my lips, I was still thinking of the beautiful optical experiments which it would have been possible to make with the magnificent stone which ornamented his pastoral ring. —  Biographies of Distinguished Scientific Men
  • The catastrophe between Mozart and the archbishop is approaching 217. —  Mozart: The Man and the Artist, as Revealed in his own Words
  • It seems that the archbishop is a man's man, a guy's guy and this means that he may be able to attract more men into the priesthood. —  GetReligion
  • The ordinary sensibility of his organs seemed withdrawn Altogether, the most interesting case of somnambulism on record, is that of a young ecclesiastic, the narrative of which, from the immediate communication of an Archbishop of Bordeaux, is given under the head of somnambulism in the French Encyclopædia This young ecclesiastic, when the archbishop was at the same seminary, used to rise every night, and write out either sermons or pieces of music. —  Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 379, May, 1847
  • Pious frauds have been committed by more religious men than Edmund Bonner See the Recantation of Thomas Cranmer, reprinted from Bonner's original pamphlet: Jenkins, vol. iv p. 393 So far the archbishop was allowed to continue, before his astonished hearers could collect themselves. —  The Reign of Mary Tudor
 

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  1. Middle English archebishop, from Old English arcebisceop, from Late Latin archiepiscopus, from Late Greek arkhiepiskopos : Greek arkhi-, archi- + Greek episkopos, bishop; see bishop.

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  1. from Middle English archbisshop, archebiscop, etc., from Anglo-Saxon arce-, ærce-, ercebiscop (also heáh-biscop, literally high bishop) = OFries. arcebiskop = Dutch aartsbisschop = Old High German erzibiscof, German erzbischof = Icelandic erkibiskup = Danish Swedish erkebiskop = French archevéque = Spanish arzobispo = Portuguese arcebispo = Italian arcivescovo, from Late Latin archiepiscopus, from LGr. ἀρχιεπίσκοπος, chief bishop, from Greek ἀρχι-, chief, + επίσκοπος, bishop: see arch- and bishop.
 

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