| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| SYLLABICATION: | bish·op |
| PRONUNCIATION: |  b sh  p |
| NOUN: | 1. A high-ranking Christian cleric, in modern churches usually in charge of a diocese and in some churches regarded as having received the highest ordination in unbroken succession from the apostles. 2. abbr. B Games A usually miter-shaped chess piece that can move diagonally across any number of unoccupied spaces. 3. Mulled port spiced with oranges, sugar, and cloves. | | ETYMOLOGY: | Middle English, from Old English bisceope, from Vulgar Latin *ebiscopus, from Late Latin episcopus, from Late Greek episkopos, from Greek, overseer : epi-, epi- + skopos, watcher; see spek- in Appendix I.
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