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noun, verb, -oped, -op⋅ing.| 1. | a person who supervises a number of local churches or a diocese, being in the Greek, Roman Catholic, Anglican, and other churches a member of the highest order of the ministry. |
| 2. | a spiritual supervisor, overseer, or the like. |
| 3. | Chess. one of two pieces of the same color that may be moved any unobstructed distance diagonally, one on white squares and the other on black. |
| 4. | a hot drink made of port wine, oranges, cloves, etc. |
| 5. | Also called bishop bird. any of several colorful African weaverbirds of the genus Euplectes, often kept as pets. |
| 6. | to appoint to the office of bishop. |
[bish-uhp] | 1. | Elizabeth, 1911–79, U.S. poet. |
| 2. | Hazel (Gladys), 1906–1998, U.S. chemist and businesswoman. |
| 3. | John Peale, 1892–1944, U.S. poet and essayist. |
| 4. | Morris (Gilbert), 1893–1973, U.S. humorist, poet, and biographer. |
| 5. | William Avery (“Billy”), 1894–1956, Canadian aviator: helped to establish Canadian air force. |
| bish·op (bĭsh'əp) n.
[Middle English, from Old English bisceope, from Vulgar Latin *ebiscopus, from Late Latin episcopus, from Late Greek episkopos, from Greek, overseer : epi-, epi- + skopos, watcher; see spek- in Indo-European roots.] |
| Bish·op (bĭsh'əp) American poet noted for her spare, largely descriptive works, such as "Filling Station" (1965). |
Bishop Bish·op (bĭsh'əp), J. Michael. Born 1936.
American microbiologist. He shared a 1989 Nobel Prize for discovering a sequence of genes that can cause cancer when mutated.
| Bishop (bĭsh'əp) Pronunciation Key
American molecular biologist who, working with Harold Varmus, discovered oncogenes. For this work, Bishop and Varmus shared the 1989 Nobel Prize for physiology or medicine. |
Bishop
an overseer. In apostolic times, it is quite manifest that there was no difference as to order between bishops and elders or presbyters (Acts 20:17-28; 1 Pet. 5:1, 2; Phil. 1:1; 1 Tim. 3). The term bishop is never once used to denote a different office from that of elder or presbyter. These different names are simply titles of the same office, "bishop" designating the function, namely, that of oversight, and "presbyter" the dignity appertaining to the office. Christ is figuratively called "the bishop [episcopos] of souls" (1 Pet. 2:25).