bishopdomとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

bishopdom (countable and uncountable, plural bishopdoms)

1. (archaic) Synonym of bishopric.
   • 1641, John Milton, Animadversions upon the Remonstrants Defence against Smectymnuus; republished in A Complete Collection of the Historical, Political, and Miscellaneous Works of John Milton, […], volume I, Amsterdam [actually London: s.n.], 1698, →OCLC, 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;

2. (archaic) Synonym of episcopate.

参照

• “bishopdom”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.