episcopy

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Supervision; superintendence. countable,obsolete,uncountable
    — There are most weighty reasons why the Church ought to lay aside episcopacy, and return to the apostolical institution of presbyters
  2. Episcopacy. countable,obsolete,uncountable
    — It was the universal doctrine of the Church of God for many ages , even for fourteen Centuries of years , that Episcopy is […]Divine […]

词形变化

episcopies plural

词源

From Ancient Greek ἐπισκοπή (episkopḗ), from ἐπίσκοπος (epískopos, “overseer, bishop”). See bishop. First attested in 1642 in John Milton’s The Reason of Church-Government Urged against Prelaty.
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