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A presbyter appointed by the bishop to institute a rector or assistant minister over a parish church.

applied particularly to the odd day (Feb. 29) inserted in the calendar of leap year. See Bissextile, n.

A bishop, who, during a vacancy of the see, administers the bishopric till a successor is installed.

ff from the enjoyment of religious privileges, as a city, a church, an individual. An archbishop may not only excommunicate and interdict his suffragans, but his vicar general may do the same. Ayliffe.

lso, the right of so investing. He had refused to yield up to the pope the investiture of bishops. Sir W. Raleigh.

A hint; an innuendo. [Obs.] A secret item was given to some of the bishops . . . to absent themselves. Fuller.

A follower of Cornelius Jansen, a Roman Catholic bishop of Ypres, in Flanders, in the 17th century, who taught certain doctrines denying free will and the possibility of resisting divine grace.

tense of public service; to turn public matters to private advantage. And judges job, and bishops bite the town. Pope.

on. Milton. You wrought to be a legate; by which power You maim'd the jurisdiction of all bishops. Shak.

The name of certain African species of Hibiscus, cultivated for the acid of their mucilage. [Written also ketmia.]

A blackish gray mineral, a sulphide of antimony, bismuth, and lead.

To become ineffectual or void; to fall. If the archbishop shall not fill it up within six months ensuing, it lapses to the king. Ayliffe.

not long ago, but not now; lately deceased, departed, or gone out of office; as, the late bishop of London; the late administration.

or sometimes cotton) fabric with a rather open texture. Lawn is used for the sleeves of a bishop's official dress in the English Church, and, figuratively, stands for the office itself. A saint in crape is twice in lawn. Pope.

A place where rubbish, dung, etc., are laid or deposited.[Obs.] B. Jonson. Smithfield was a laystall of all ordure and filth. Bacon.

. Bissextile; a year containing 366 days; every fourth year which leaps over a day more than a common year, giving to February twenty-nine days. See Bissextile.

nt. Burrill. -- Letters of orders (Eccl.), a document duly signed and sealed, by which a bishop makes it known that he has regularly ordained a certain person as priest, deacon, etc. -- Letters patent, overt, or open (Eng. Law), a writing executed and sealed, by which power and authority are granted to a person to do…

To attend or conduct with a light; to show the way to by means of a light. His bishops lead him forth, and light him on. Landor. To light a fire, to kindle the material of a fire.

Things lying scattered about in a manner indicating slovenliness; scattered rubbish. Strephon, who found the room was void. Stole in, and took a strict survey Of all the litter as it lay. Swift.

The glossy ibis (Ibis falcinellus); -- said to have given its name to the city of Liverpool.