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archbishop

noun
/ˌɑː(ɹ)t͡ʃˈbɪʃəp/UK

Etymology

From Middle English erchebischop, archebischop, from Old English arċebisċop (“archbishop”), from Late Latin or Ecclesiastical Latin archiepiscopus, from Ancient Greek ἀρχιεπίσκοπος (arkhiepískopos), from ἀρχι- (arkhi-, “first, chief”) + ἐπίσκοπος (epískopos, “overseer”), from ἐπισκοπέω (episkopéō, “to watch over”), from ἐπί (epí, “over”) + σκοπέω (skopéō, “to examine”), equivalent to arch- + bishop.

  1. derived from ἀρχιεπίσκοπος
  2. derived from archiepiscopus
  3. inherited from arċebisċop — “archbishop”
  4. inherited from erchebischop

Definitions

  1. A senior bishop who is in charge of an archdiocese, and presides over a group of dioceses…

    A senior bishop who is in charge of an archdiocese, and presides over a group of dioceses called a province (in Catholicism, Eastern Orthodoxy, Anglicanism, etc.)

    • Thereupon I declared that I was a heretic and a barbarian—“Je suis hérétique et barbare,” I said, “and that these archbishops and cardinals and monsignors, and the rest of them, meant nothing at all to me.
    • He passed over several archbishops who would traditionally become cardinals to promote Gregory. He also moved Augustine Tolton, who died in 1897 after becoming the first African American priest, one step closer to sainthood.
    • One of those 19 candidates was Cardinal Raymond Leo Burke, the archbishop of St. Louis from 2004 to 2008.

  2. A fairy chess piece which combines the moves of the bishop and the knight.

The neighborhood

Derived

archbishophood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at archbishop. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at archbishop. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

9 hops · closes at archbishop

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA