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  • noun Alternative spelling of prince bishop.

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Examples

  • His lifestyle was that of a prince-bishop, riding with the army, leading York's witan council, negotiating diplomatic settlements with foreign powers, making and breaking kings, languishing in prison and finally dying in embittered political exile.

    Archive 2006-06-01 Carla 2006

  • His lifestyle was that of a prince-bishop, riding with the army, leading York's witan council, negotiating diplomatic settlements with foreign powers, making and breaking kings, languishing in prison and finally dying in embittered political exile.

    Five historical figures Carla 2006

  • He abolished the office of prince-bishop and established himself as a secular ruler.

    4. Montenegro 2001

  • As Petar Petrovic-Njegos, prince-bishop of Montenegro, wrote in his 1847 epic The Mountain Wreath:

    America and the Bosnia Genocide Danner, Mark 1997

  • In 1557 a new prince-bishop made his “joyous entry,” which had been postponed for some months while the countryside recovered from the effects of a disastrous famine.

    Savoring The Past Wheaton Barbara Ketcham 1983

  • Lancelot de Casteau included turkey in two of the four courses of the banquet celebrating the entry of a prince-bishop of Liège in 1557; for the first course it was boiled accompanied by oysters and cardoons, and for the third course it was roasted and served cold.38 By the middle of the next century several recipes had been developed.

    Savoring The Past Wheaton Barbara Ketcham 1983

  • In 1557 a new prince-bishop made his “joyous entry,” which had been postponed for some months while the countryside recovered from the effects of a disastrous famine.

    Savoring The Past Wheaton Barbara Ketcham 1983

  • Lancelot de Casteau included turkey in two of the four courses of the banquet celebrating the entry of a prince-bishop of Liège in 1557; for the first course it was boiled accompanied by oysters and cardoons, and for the third course it was roasted and served cold.38 By the middle of the next century several recipes had been developed.

    Savoring The Past Wheaton Barbara Ketcham 1983

  • But, in 1776, making a tour in Bavaria and Switzerland, he fell in with the notorious Father Gassner, who had at that time undertaken the cure of the blind prince-bishop of Ratisbon by exorcism.

    Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 382, October 1847 Various

  • In supreme command of a motley army of fellow-knights, Franz made an energetic attack upon the rich landed estates of the Catholic prince-bishop of Trier.

    A Political and Social History of Modern Europe V.1. Carlton J. H. Hayes 1923

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