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e⋅pis⋅co⋅pal

  [i-pis-kuh-puhl]
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–adjective
1. of or pertaining to a bishop: episcopal authority.
2. based on or recognizing a governing order of bishops: an episcopal hierarchy.
3. (initial capital letter) designating the Anglican Church or some branch of it, as the Episcopal Church in America.
–noun
4. (initial capital letter) Informal. an Episcopalian.
Origin:
1425–75; late ME < LL episcopālis. See bishop, -al 1

Related forms:
e⋅pis⋅co⋅pal⋅ly, adverb
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e·pis·co·pal   (ĭ-pĭs'kə-pəl)   
adj.  
  1. Of or relating to a bishop.
  2. Of, relating to, or involving church government by bishops.
  3. Episcopal Of or relating to the Episcopal Church.

[Middle English, from Late Latin episcopālis, from episcopus, bishop; see bishop.]
e·pis'co·pal·ly adv.
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Episcopal

E*pis"co*pal\, a. [L. episcopalis, fr. episcopus: cf. F. ['e]piscopal. See Bishop.]

1. Governed by bishops; as, an episcopal church.

2. Belonging to, or vested in, bishops; as, episcopal jurisdiction or authority; the episcopal system.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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episcopal 
c.1460, from M.Fr. episcopal, from L.L. episcopalis, from L. episcopus (see bishop). Sense of a church governed by bishops is 1752. With a capital -E-, the ordinary designation of the Anglican church in the U.S. and Scotland.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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