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From Ancient Greek ἐπισκοπή (episkopḗ), from ἐπίσκοπος (epískopos, “overseer, bishop”). See bishop. First attested in 1642 in John Milton’s The Reason of Church-Government Urged against Prelaty.
episcopy (countable and uncountable, plural episcopies)
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “episcopy”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)