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Furnishing ground to hope; inspiriting; favoring. -- En*cour"a*ging*ly, adv.

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

That which gives pleasure or keen satisfaction. The hope of everlasting enjoyments. Glanvill.

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.

To draw on, by exciting hope or desire; to allure; to attract; as, the bait enticed the fishes. Often in a bad sense: To lead astray; to induce to evil; to tempt; as, the sirens enticed them to listen. Roses blushing as they blow, And enticing men to pull. Beau. & Fl. My son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not. P…

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.

ed. 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.

To lift up; to elevate; to exalt; to magnify. That didst his state above his hopes erect. Daniel. I, who am a party, am not to erect myself into a judge. Dryden.

Hope. [Obs.] Shak.

essence of this virtue [charity]. Addison. The essence of Addison's humor is irony. Courthope.

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.