diocesan
名词 n.
形容词 adj.
英 /dʌɪˈɒsɪsən/
美 /daɪˈɑsɪsən/
英文释义
名词 n.
- The bishop of a diocese.
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An inhabitant of a diocese.
— The bishop of Chartres indignantly informed the king that his diocesans were dying like flies and eating grass like sheep, and indeed both the king and Fleury got a fright when their coaches were stopped in the Paris countryside by peasants crying out ‘Famine! Bread!’ rather than ‘Vive le Roi!’
形容词 adj.
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Pertaining to a diocese.
— Diocesan bureaucracies were both symptom and cause of this.
词形变化
词源
词源 1
From Middle French diocesain.
词源 2
From Middle French diocesain.
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