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Glad⋅ys

  [glad-is]
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–noun
a female given name.
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Bish⋅op

  [bish-uhp]
–noun
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.
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Cultural Dictionary

bishop

In some Christian churches, a person appointed to oversee a group of priests or ministers and their congregations. In the Anglican Communion, the Eastern Orthodox Church, and the Roman Catholic Church, bishops are considered the successors of the Twelve Apostles.

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Word Origin & History

Gladys 
fem. proper name, Welsh Gwladys, probably a Brythonified form of L. Claudia (q.v.).

bishop 
O.E. bisceop, from L.L. episcopus, from Gk. episkopos "watcher, overseer," a title for various government officials, later taken over in a Church sense, from epi- "over" + skopos "watcher," from skeptesthai "look at." Given a specific sense in the Church, but the word also was used in the N.T. as a descriptive title for elders, and continues as such in some non-hierarchical Christian sects. The chess piece (formerly archer, before that alfin) was so called from 1562. Bishopric is O.E. bisceoprice, from rice "realm."
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Medical Dictionary

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.

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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.
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