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Chosen to an office, but not yet actually inducted into it; as, bishop elect; governor or mayor elect.

for a whole order of men; general; circular; as, an encyclical letter of a council, of a bishop, or the pope.

To induct, as a bishop, into the powers and privileges of a vacant see.

The act of enthroning; hence, the admission of a bishop to his stall or throne in his cathedral.

To place on a throne; hence, to induct into office, as a bishop. There openly enthronized as the very elected king. Knolles.

Relating to the epipubis.

Government of the church by bishops; church government by three distinct orders of ministers -- bishops, priests, and deacons -- of whom the bishops have an authority superior and of a different kind.

Governed by bishops; as, an episcopal church.

Pertaining to bishops, or government by bishops; episcopal; specifically, of or relating to the Protestant Episcopal Church.

A bishop. [Obs.] Milton.

A bishopric; the office and dignity of a bishop.

The killing of a bishop.

To make a bishop of by consecration. Southey.

on a monument, as that concerning Alexander: "Sufficit huic tumulus, cui non sufficeret orbis."

used. Usher. Great epochs and crises in the kingdom of God. Trench. The acquittal of the bishops was not the only event which makes the 30th of June, 1688, a great epoch in history. Macaulay.

ilateral shell (Zoöl.), one in which a transverse line drawn through the apex of the umbo bisects the valve, or divides it into two equal and symmetrical parts. -- Mutually equilateral, applied to two figures, when every side of the one has its equal among the sides of the other.

a mineral, consisting chiefly of the silicate of bismuth, found at Freiberg; -- called also culytine.

A follower of Eunomius, bishop of Cyzicus (4th century A. D.), who held that Christ was not God but a created being, having a nature different from that of the Father. -- a.

A follower of Eusebius, bishop of Cæsarea, who was a friend and protector of Arius.

A permission which a bishop grants to a priest to go out of his diocese. Wharton.