meaning of bishop
1. A spiritual overseer, superintendent, or director.
2. In the Roman Catholic, Greek, and Anglican or Protestant Episcopal churches, one ordained to the highest order of the ministry, superior to the priesthood, and generally claiming to be a successor of the Apostles. The bishop is usually the spiritual head or ruler of a diocese, bishopric, or see.
3. In the Methodist Episcopal and some other churches, one of the highest church officers or superintendents.
4. A piece used in the game of chess, bearing a representation of a bishops miter; -- formerly called archer.
5. A beverage, being a mixture of wine, oranges or lemons, and sugar.
6. An old name for a womans bustle.
7. To make seem younger, by operating on the teeth; as, to bishop an old horse or his teeth.
8. A wide sleeve, once worn by women.
9. To admit into the church by confirmation; to confirm; hence, to receive formally to favor.
10. chess a piece that can be moved diagonally over unoccupied squares of the same color
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