bishopdom
Noun

bishopdom

  1. The jurisdiction of a bishop; episcopate.
    • 1641, John Milton, Animadverſions upon The Remonſtrants Defence againſt Smectymnuus, London; reprinted in A Complete Collection of the Hiſtorical, Political, and Miſcellaneous Works of John Milton, […] , volume I, Amsterdam, 1698, page 143 ↗:
      See the frowardneſſe of this Man, he would perſwade us that the Succeſſion and divine Right of Biſhopdom hath bin unqueſtionable through all Ages;



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