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ed unto the Shepherd and Bithvp of your souls. 
1 Pet. ii. 26. 
2. In the earliest usage of the Christian church, 
a spiritual overseer, whether of a local church 
or of a number of churches; a ruler or director 
in the church. See elder and presbyter. 
Pan! and Timotheus ... to all the saints in rhrist 
Jesus which are at Phllippl, with the bixhrips and deacons. 
Philip, i. 1. 
The English version has hardly dealt fairly in this case 
with the sacred text, in rendering eVio-icojroB?, verse 28 
(Acts xx.), "overseers"; whereas it ought there, as in 
all other places, to have been "bishops"; that the fact 
of elders and bishops having been originally and apostoli- 
cally synonymous might be apparent to the ordinary Eng- 
lish reader, which now it is not. 
Dean AlJ'onl, Greek Test., Acts xx. 17. 
Bishops and Presbyters, literally overseers and elders, 
are universally admitted to be terms equivalent to a con- 
siderable extent, and often, at least, applied to the same 
officers. Smith, Student's Eccles. Hist., p. 17(1. 
3. From an early time, an overseer over a 
number of local churches ; particularly, in the 
Greek, Oriental, Roman Catholic, and Angli- 
can churches, the title of the highest order in 
the ministry. See eniscopncy. The origin of the 
office of bishop in the Christian church is a matter of 
dispute. The terms bishop and presbyter appear 
-ial or ceremonial seat of the bishop in the chancel or choir 
', condition: see bishop and -hood.] The of- 
fice, dignity, or rank of bishop, 
bishoplyt (bish'up-li), a. [< ME. bisslioply, etc., 
< AS. bisceojilic : see liix/ioji and -fy 1 .] Bishop- 
like; episcopal. 
If he preach . . . before a bishop, then let him treat 
of bislioply duties and orders. 
iMtimer, 1st Sermon bef. Edw. VI. (1549). 
Episcopal, which has supplanted bishoply,ts only a Latin 
word in an English dress. Trench, Study of Words, p. 164. 
bishoplyt (bish'up-li), adr. [< bishop + -ly 2 .] 
In the manner of a bishop. 
bishop-ray (bish'up-ra), . 1. A raioid sela- 
chian of the family Myliobatidtr, JKIobatis (or 
Ntoasodon) nurinar'i, of tropical and subtropical 
seas, sometimes wandering in summer north- 
ward along the coast of the United States to 
iishop's Throne and Synthronus. basilica of Torcello, near Venice. Virginia. Its disk is twice as wide as long, and is 
brownish diversified with small round pale spots. 
Llral church of his diocese. In the o \nv fih nf tVio o-orma ~ 
i the Oreek Church and in some vi, ,T, : ?7,,. . ^ S 
HMU VMtuoUf no onn in me \nceiv v uuruftl ilJiil ill BUlllt i_ v /v* 1 / *i \ m i a -n i 
Roman Catholic churches, it stood behind the altar in the DlSnOpriC ( Dish up-rik), n. [Early mod. E. also 
imyi. Cardinal bishop. See eanlinal. Case of the 
A virtuous woman should reject marriage as a good 
seven bishops, a famous English trial, in 1688, of the pri- 
nlence of government. (See pope.) 
also has archbishops and metropoltt __ 
cordate, the nomination of Roman Catholic bishops is some- 
times made by the temporal power ; the former electlo: 
cally instituted forconve viena me uiucese; oppotrcu to uu ussiHiaiti, cvaajuiu), ' 
f ) The Anglican Church "'istionary, or ilhwant bishop.- Ecumenical bishop, bishop S-cap (bish'ups-kap). n. 
oiitans. By virtue of con- See MttHienfcai.- Itinerant . bishop i,a bishop not having species of Mitella (M. (libbi/lla a 
:i Catholic bishops is some- LISH'LSF*?" Jurisdiction, but possess ng joint ,^ t , lra i o .. dpr ,TJfi-r whl 
A name of two 
^_ __.._ and M. receda), 
authority with others over all the'churcnes^rthS same u ? l ^ ral T ? 1 '? i er J f$0 aflS * bich are natives 
by the clergy" remains "in some cathedraVchapters" but ot e*ni^tion. The bishops of the Methodist and Moravian ot the United htates: so called from the form 
more commonly names are proposed by the fellow-suffra- < -: ll " rc , he8 e itinerant bishops.- Suffragan bishop, (a) of the pod. Also called miterwort. 
gans and metropolitan, andby the clergy of the diocese A bl '" 1 P consecrated to assist another bishop who is dis- Anu bishop's-mps have golden rings 
to be provided for, to the Pope, who directly appoints and a , ble , d -i v a f' iUlie88 ' ( r < ? the . r , cause . ; an SSF 1 7 bi8hop ' Lomiffllm; Prel. to Voices of the Night 
in any case confirms the new bishop. In England bish- He Sj*h 'C " 1 M?* 8 ! bisho P '" Ilavin 8 no P wer to hi 
to another is said to be translated; the"church contain" church""fo7ifirrn "rAwliJi> 
ing hi. cathedra or episcopal. throne ^s called^aW^raJ, C ; 
and the local jurisdiction indicated by this throne, and 
the city or locality in which this stands, together with the 
diocese or territory attached to it, his see, to which he is 
Donne, Poems, p. 172. 
wide form of sleeve formerly worn by women : 
so named from its resemblance to the full 
sleeve, drawn in at the wrist, worn 
can bishops. 
officer of the Aaronic or lesser priesthood, presides over it, 
ministers in outward ordinances, conducts the temporal 
business of the church, and acts as judge on transgress- 
ors. Often abbreviated lip. See ehorepiscopits and vicar 
apostolic. 
. . 
as bishop, 7 () 2. A name of the miter- 
shell, Mitra episcopalis, of the family Mitrida. 
bishop-stoolt (bish'up-stOl), n. ' 
similar umbelliferous plant, /J/-O/I/CM/' rujiil- 
the u jo ,van, Car,,,,, a*. 
