bishops

/ˈbɪʃəps/ · noun

Meaning

An overseer of congregations: either any such overseer, generally speaking, or (in Eastern Orthodoxy, Catholicism, Anglicanism, etc.) an official in the church hierarchy (actively or nominally) governing a diocese, supervising the church's priests, deacons, and property in its territory.
The holder of the Greek or Roman position of episcopus, supervisor over the public dole of grain, etc.
Any watchman, inspector, or overlooker.
A chief of the Festival of Fools or St. Nicholas Day.
The chess piece denoted ♗ or ♝ which moves along diagonal lines and developed from the shatranj alfil ("elephant") and was originally known as the aufil or archer in English.
Any of various African birds of the genus Euplectes; a kind of weaverbird closely related to the widowbirds.
To act as a bishop, to perform the duties of a bishop, especially to confirm another's membership in the church.
To make a bishop.
To provide with bishops.
To permit food (especially milk) to burn while cooking (from bishops' role in the inquisition or as mentioned in the quotation below, of horses).
(by extension, of horses) To make a horse seem younger, particularly by manipulation of its teeth.
To murder by drowning.

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