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bish·op       (bĭsh'əp)  Pronunciation Key 
n.  
  1. A high-ranking Christian cleric, in modern churches usually in charge of a diocese and in some churches regarded as having received the highest ordination in unbroken succession from the apostles.
  2. Abbr. B Games A usually miter-shaped chess piece that can move diagonally across any number of unoccupied spaces.
  3. Mulled port spiced with oranges, sugar, and cloves.


[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.]

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