Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Survey; superintendence; search.
- noun Episcopacy.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete Survey; superintendence.
- noun obsolete Episcopacy.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun obsolete
survey ;superintendence - noun obsolete
episcopacy
Etymologies
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From Ancient Greek ἐπίσκοπος (episkopos, "overseer, bishop") + -y. See bishop.
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Examples
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Now committed to voluminous and arduous prose writing, he keeps his biographers busy with attacks on prelatical episcopy and tracts on church government, but he did not forget his ambition for poetry and fame; hence his autobiographical digression in The Reason of Church-government (1642), which gives an account of his youthful travels and studies, and asserts his claim to be a poet of achievement, continuing promise, and ultimate fame.
Heroic Milton: Happy Birthday Kermode, Frank 2009
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