diocesan
Pronunciation Adjective
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Pronunciation Adjective
diocesan (not comparable)
- Pertaining to a diocese.
- 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin 2010, p. 378:
- Diocesan bureaucracies were both symptom and cause of this.
- 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin 2010, p. 378:
- French: diocésain
- Italian: diocesano
- Portuguese: diocesano
- Spanish: diocesano
diocesan (plural diocesans)
- The bishop of a diocese.
- An inhabitant of a diocese.
- 2002, Colin Jones (historian), The Great Nation, Penguin 2003, p. 121:
- The bishop of Chartres indignantly informed the king that his diocesans were dying like flies and eating grass like sheep, and indeed both the king and Fleury got a fright when their coaches were stopped in the Paris countryside by peasants crying out ‘Famine! Bread!’ rather than ‘Vive le Roi!’
- 2002, Colin Jones (historian), The Great Nation, Penguin 2003, p. 121:
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