bishop – English noun declension

English noun forms of bishop

Noun: bishop
Singularbishop
Pluralbishops

Sample Sentences

  • King James of blessed memory said, no Bishop, no King: it was not he, but others that added, No Ceremony, no Bishop. [1641, “Smectymnuus”, in Vindic. Answer Hvmble Remonstr., §16. 208:]
  • St. Ignatius... In his 'Epiſtle to the Magneſians,' he exhorts them to do all things in the love of God, telling them, the Biſhop preſides in the place of God... [1715, William Hendley, A Defence of the Church of England, section 16:]
  • These ministers were at first confined to the three orders of bishops, priests, and deacons. [1845, J. Lingard, Hist. & Antiq. Anglo-Saxon Church, 3rd edition, I. iv. 146:]
  • It is a fact now generally recognized by theologians of all shades of opinion, that in the language of the New Testament the same officer in the Church is called indifferently ‘bishop’ ἐπίσκοπος and ‘elder’ or ‘presbyter’ πρεσβύτερος. [1868, Joseph Barber Lightfoot, St. Paul's epistle to the Philippians, section 93:]
  • The Jubilee Mass had a special solemnity due to the presence of two exiled Chinese bishops—Thomas Cardinal Tien, Archbishop of Peking, and Bishop Joseph Yuen, of Chu-ma-tien, Honan—as well as the recently named bishop of Taichung, Formosa, Most Rev. William Kupfer, MM, who was in the United States to attend the Maryknoll General Chapter. [2013, Maureen Abbott, New Lights from Old Truths: Living the Signs of the Times, volume IV, Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, Indiana, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 375:]
  • The Caliphaes of the Sarasins were kings and chiefe bishops in their religion. [1586, Pierre de la Primaudaye, translated by Thomas Bowes, The French Academie, I. 633:]
  • The Byshop of Egypt is called the Souldan. [1615, William Bedwell, Arabian Trudgman in translating Mohammedis Imposturæ, sig. N4]
  • […] which explains the beheading of the Muslim Bishop of Lisbon, soon after the Reconquista. [2001, José Carlos Valle Pérez, Jorge Rodrigues, El arte románico en Galicia y Portugal, page 254:]
  • The [holder of the office of] Imam [of Monrovia] is commonly referred to, both in conversation and in the press, as ‘the Muslim Bishop’. [2018, Merran Fraenkel, Tribe and Class in Monrovia, page 139:]
  • They gave away corn, not cash; and Cicero was made bishop, or overseer, of this public victualling. [1808, The Monthly Magazine and British Register, 26 109:]
  • There is no place we see privileged from temptations, no desert so solitary but the devil will seek it out; no pinnacle so high but the devil is a bishop over it, to visit and overlook it. [a. 1627 (date written), Lancelot Andrewes, “Seven Sermons upon the Temptation of Christ in the Wilderness. Sermon IV.”, in J[ohn] P[osthumous] W[ilson], editor, Ninety-six Sermons […], volume V, Oxford, Oxfordshire: John Henry Parker, published 1843, →OCLC, page 516:]
  • The Bishoppes some name Alphins, some fooles, and some name them Princes; other some call them Archers. [1562, Rowbotham in Archaeologia, XXIV. 203]
  • A Bishop or Archer, who is commonly figured with his head cloven. [1656, Gioachino Greco, “The royall game of chesse-play, being the study of Biochimo”, in Francis Beale, transl., (Please provide the book title or journal name):]
  • ‘Bishop, Bishop-Barnabee,
  • Tell me when my wedding shall be;
  • If it be to-morrow day,
  • Ope your wings and fly away. [1875, William Douglas Parish, A Dictionary of the Sussex Dialect:]
  • Well roasted, with Sugar and Wine in a Cup,
  • They'll make a sweet Bishop. [ante''' 1745, Jonathan Swift, Women who cry Apples in Works (1746), VIII. 192]
  • A bowl of that liquor called Bishop, which Johnson had always liked. [1791, J. Boswell, Life of Johnson, anno 1752 I. 135]
  • Spicy bishop, drink divine. [1801, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Poems, II. 169:]
  • If, by her bishop, or her 'grace' alone,
  • A genuine lady, or a church, is known. [c. 1860, John Saxe, Progress:]
  • Here; tak him, an wesh him; an' put him a clen bishop on. [1874, Evelyn Waugh in Lanc. Gloss. (E.D.S.)]

Etymology

1. From Middle English bischop, bishop, bisshop, biscop, from Old English bisċop (“bishop”), from Proto-West Germanic *biskop, from Vulgar Latin (e)biscopus, from classical Latin episcopus (“overseer, supervisor”), from Ancient Greek ἐπίσκοπος (epískopos, “overseer”), from ἐπί (epí, “over”) + σκοπός (skopós, “watcher”), used in Greek and Latin both generally and as a title of civil officers. Cognate with all European terms for the position in various Christian churches; compare also Middle English bisp (“bishop”).
2. * The Tyndale Bible uses native English overseer instead. See: Middle English Nouns 'bischop', Latin Nouns 'episcopus', Ancient Greek Nouns 'ἐπίσκοπος'.

Verbs referencing "bishop"

Spanish Nouns obispo.