diocesan

名词 n. 形容词 adj.
/dʌɪˈɒsɪsən/    /daɪˈɑsɪsən/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The bishop of a diocese.
  2. 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.
  1. Pertaining to a diocese. not-comparable
    — Diocesan bureaucracies were both symptom and cause of this.

词形变化

diocesans plural

词源

词源 1
From Middle French diocesain.
词源 2
From Middle French diocesain.
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