Definitions
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- adjective Resembling a bishop; belonging to a bishop.
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- adjective Resembling or belonging to a
bishop .
Etymologies
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Examples
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It is indeed a love story of the highest order as Odo falls for Gytha in a most un-bishoplike way.
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It is indeed a love story of the highest order as Odo falls for Gytha in a most un-bishoplike way.
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It is indeed a love story of the highest order as Odo falls for Gytha in a most un-bishoplike way.
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William bears a good character, and won the esteem of Englishmen; but the unlearned Ulf is emphatically said to have done "nought bishoplike."
William the Conqueror Freeman, E A 1913
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William bears a good character, and won the esteem of Englishmen; but the unlearned Ulf is emphatically said to have done "nought bishoplike."
William the Conqueror Edward Augustus Freeman 1857
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