Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pertaining to or being a metropolis; metropolitan.
- Eccles., pertaining to the rank, office, or see of a metropolitan.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Of or pertaining to a metropolis; being a metropolis; metropolitan.
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- adjective archaic
metropolitan ; pertaining to ametropolis
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Examples
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All of them except Cuba are under the metropolitical authority of the Archbishop of Canterbury.
Archive 2008-04-01 Fr Timothy Matkin 2008
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All of them except Cuba are under the metropolitical authority of the Archbishop of Canterbury.
What's in a name? Fr Timothy Matkin 2008
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The greatness of Rome, that is, as the capital of the Empire, imparts to the local Church a superior dignity, even as compared with Lyons, or any other metropolitical Church.
ANF01. The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus 1819-1893 2001
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This chapter and the foregoing are an eminent prophecy and prediction of the destruction of Babylon and of the land of the Chaldeans, -- of the metropolitical city of the empire and of the nation itself.
The Sermons of John Owen 1616-1683 1968
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To this he answers, secondly, that when the church was first planed, before any great number was converts, or any fit to be made presbyters, there were only those two orders instituted, bishops and deacons: so that this church at Philippi seems to have been a metropolitical infant!
The Doctrine of the Saints��� Perseverance Explained and Confirmed 1616-1683 1966
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In this section the doctor hath most ingenuously and truly given us the rise and occasion of his diocesan and metropolitical prelates.
The Doctrine of the Saints��� Perseverance Explained and Confirmed 1616-1683 1966
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Why, then, it is manifest that there was fixed at Alexandria a patriarchal chair and a metropolitical church, according to the appointment of Jesus Christ by his apostles!
The Doctrine of the Saints��� Perseverance Explained and Confirmed 1616-1683 1966
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The reason of referring this controversy unto a determination at Jerusalem the Holy Ghost acquaints us with, chap.xv. 2; so that we have no need of this metropolitical figment to inform us in it.
The Doctrine of the Saints��� Perseverance Explained and Confirmed 1616-1683 1966
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Because he recommends to them that particular church in Syria, which, by his imprisonment, was deprived of its pastor, therefore, without doubt, he was a metropolitical archbishop: “Tityre, tu patulæ,” etc.
The Doctrine of the Saints��� Perseverance Explained and Confirmed 1616-1683 1966
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How well this is accommodated to the church of Corinth, which Clemens calls bebaiotatēn kai archaian, and which himself would have to be a metropolitical church, being confessedly great, numerous, furnished with great and large gifts and abilities, may be seen with half an eye.
The Doctrine of the Saints��� Perseverance Explained and Confirmed 1616-1683 1966
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