Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The state or dignity of an archbishop.
Wiktionary
- n. The form of episcopacy in which the chief power is in the hands of archbishops.
- n. The position or dignity of an archbishop.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. That form of episcopacy in which the chief power is in the hands of archbishops.
- n. The state or dignity of an archbishop.
Etymologies
- archi- + episcopacy (Wiktionary)
Examples
“During the archiepiscopacy of his successor, Diego Vasquez de”
“It was during the archiepiscopacy of the successor of the nephew of”
A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany, Volume One
“Parisian archiepiscopacy, proffered him by Buonaparte, and died in London, in December 1804, in the arms of Monsieur, afterwards”
“In one of the most important presidential addresses of his seven-year archiepiscopacy, described by one insider as a "brilliant piece of work", the Archbishop is expected to salvage hope from the despair felt by many Anglicans over pressure brought by the liberal, evangelical and Catholic wings of the established Church.”
““urbium exarchoi,” as the doctor terms them; — what advance is made by all this to the assertion of a metropolitical archiepiscopacy I cannot as yet discover.”
The Doctrine of the Saints��� Perseverance Explained and Confirmed
““’Though there are no Auto-da-Fe’s in Lima now,’ said one of the company to another; ‘I fear our sailor friend runs risks of the archiepiscopacy.”
“Though there are no Auto-da-Fe's in Lima now,' said one of the company to another; 'I fear our sailor friend runs risks of the archiepiscopacy.”
“Though there are no Auto-da-Fe's in Lima now,' said one of the company to another; 'I fear our sailor friend runs risk of the archiepiscopacy.”
“"Though there are no Auto-da-Fés in Lima now," said one of the company to another: "I fear our sailor friend runs risk of the archiepiscopacy.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘archiepiscopacy’.
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Words I Don't Get to Use Enough
meretricious, languorous, inartful, caesura, truculent, hipsteratti, hiccius doccius, replevined, impudent, sessile, katabasis, pawl and 11 more...
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Words from Moby Dick
frigate, presumptuous, genteel, succor, hearthstone, gentry, factitious, bilious, insurgent, portent, enervate, genuflect and 303 more...
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The Whiteness of the Whale
Words in Melville's "Moby Dick"
grapnels, spile, pea coffee, farrago, grego, bosky, bombazine, brevet, cenotaph, cupidity, kelson, obliquity and 164 more...
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Moby-Dick
Interesting words and usages.
hypo, spile, hunks, grapnel, squitchy, skrimshander, monkey jacket, direful, grego, wrapall, dreadnaught, bosky and 158 more...
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Moby Dick
A list of words from the book Moby Dick.
apoplexy, festooned, legerdemain, somnambulistic, peremptorily, swart, rapscallions, exordium, inculcating, bivouacks, vacuity, monomaniac and 28 more...
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yarb Citation on auto-da-fe. Jul 25, 2008