bishop

• King James of blessed memory said, no Bishop, no King: it was not he, but others that added, No Ceremony, no Bishop. - 1641, “Smectymnuus”, in Vindic. Answer Hvmble Remonstr., §16. 208:
• St. Ignatius... In his 'Epiſtle to the Magneſians,' he exhorts them to do all things in the love of God, telling them, the Biſhop preſides in the place of God... - 1715, William Hendley, A Defence of the Church of...
• These ministers were at first confined to the three orders of bishops, priests, and deacons. - 1845, J. Lingard, Hist. & Antiq. Anglo-Saxon Church, 3rd edition, I. iv. 146:

Hypernyms: cleric

1. (religion, nonstandard) A similar official or chief priest in another religion.

   • The Caliphaes of the Sarasins were kings and chiefe bishops in their religion. - 1586, Pierre de la Primaudaye, translated by Thomas Bowes, The French Academie, I. 633:
   • The Byshop of Egypt is called the Souldan. - 1615, William Bedwell, Arabian Trudgman in translating Mohammedis Imposturæ, sig. N4
   • […] which explains the beheading of the Muslim Bishop of Lisbon, soon after the Reconquista. - 2001, José Carlos Valle Pérez, Jorge Rodrigues, El arte románico en Galicia y Portugal, page 254:

   Hypernyms: cleric

• They gave away corn, not cash; and Cicero was made bishop, or overseer, of this public victualling. - 1808, The Monthly Magazine and British Register, 26 109:

• There is no place we see privileged from temptations, no desert so solitary but the devil will seek it out; no pinnacle so high but the devil is a bishop over it, to visit and overlook it. - a. 1627 (date written),...

• The Bishoppes some name Alphins, some fooles, and some name them Princes; other some call them Archers. - 1562, Rowbotham in Archaeologia, XXIV. 203
• A Bishop or Archer, who is commonly figured with his head cloven. - 1656, Gioachino Greco, “The royall game of chesse-play, being the study of Biochimo”, in Francis Beale, transl., (Please provide the book title or...

• ‘Bishop, Bishop-Barnabee, Tell me when my wedding shall be; If it be to-morrow day, Ope your wings and fly away. - 1875, William Douglas Parish, A Dictionary of the Sussex Dialect:

• Well roasted, with Sugar and Wine in a Cup, They'll make a sweet Bishop. - ante''' 1745, Jonathan Swift, Women who cry Apples in Works (1746), VIII. 192
• A bowl of that liquor called Bishop, which Johnson had always liked. - 1791, J. Boswell, Life of Johnson, anno 1752 I. 135
• Spicy bishop, drink divine. - 1801, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Poems, II. 169:

• If, by her bishop, or her 'grace' alone, A genuine lady, or a church, is known. - c. 1860, John Saxe, Progress:

• Here; tak him, an wesh him; an' put him a clen bishop on. - 1874, Evelyn Waugh in Lanc. Gloss. (E.D.S.)

• Se bisceop biþ gesett... to bisceopgenne cild. - c. 1000, Thorpe's Laws, II. 348 (Bosw.)
• Wanne the bisschop, bisschopeth the Tokene of marke he set on the. - c. 1315, Shoreham, section 5:
• The Marquis of Buckingham and his wife were both bishopped, or confirmed by the Bishop of London. - 1622, W. Yonge, Diary, published 1848, section 50:

1. (by extension, jocularly, obsolete) To confirm (in its other senses).

   • Why sent they it by Felton to be bishoped at Paules? - 1596, W. Warner, Albions Eng., x. liv. 243:
   • He... chose to bear The Name of Fool confirm'd, and Bishop'd by the Fair. - 1700, Boccaccio, “Cymon & Iphigenia”, in John Dryden, transl., Fables, section 550:

• 1549, H. Latimer, 2nd Serm. before Kynges Maiestie, 5th Serm. sig. Pviv Thys hathe bene often tymes... sene in preachers before they were byshoppyd or benificed.
• There may be other... matters to occupy the thoughts of one about to be bishopped. - 1861 November 23, Sat. Rev., 537

• Italy would be well bishoped if her episcopacy... did not exceed fifty-nine. - 1865 December 6, Daily Telegraph, 5/3

• If the porage be burned to, or the meate ouer rosted, we say the bishop hath put his foote in the potte or the bishop hath played the cooke, because the bishops burn who they lust and whosoever displeaseth them. -...
• It will be as bad as the Bishops foot in the broth. - 1641, John Milton, Animadversions, section 9:
• The Cream is burnt to. Betty. Why, Madam, the Bishop has set his Foot in it. - 1738, Compl. Coll. Genteel Conversat., Jonathan Swift, section 10:

• 1727, R. Bradley, Family Dict. at "Horse" This way of making a Horse look young is... called Bishoping.
• Bishopped, or To bishop. A term among horſe dealers, for burning the mark into a horſe's tooth, after he has loſt it by age... It is a common ſaying of milk that is burnt to, that the biſhop has fet his foot in it....
• I found his teeth had been filed down and bishoped with the greatest neatness and perfection. - 1840, E. E. Napier, Scenes & Sports Foreign Lands, I. v. 138:

• I Burked the papa, now I'll Bishop the son. - 1840, R.H. Barham, Some Account of a New Play in Ingoldsby Legends 1st series, 308
• There were no more Burking murders until 1831, when two men, named Bishop and Williams, drowned a poor [14-year-old] Italian boy in Bethnal Green, and sold his body to the surgeons. - 1870, Walter Thornbury, Old Stories...
• John Bishop and another grave-robber called Thomas Williams had drowned the boy, a woman and another boy in a well in John Bishop's garden in Bethnal Green... Bishop and Williams were hanged outside Newgate Prison in...