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A resinous substance flowing spontaneously from trees of Zanzibar, Madagascar, and South America (Trachylobium Hornemannianum, T. verrocosum, and Hymenæa Courbaril), and dug from earth where forests have stood in Africa; -- used chiefly in making varnishes. Ur

The yellowish, fragrant balsam yielded by the sweet gum; also, the tree itself.

Of or pertaining to an archbishop; as, Canterbury is an archiepiscopal see.

The station or dignity of an archbishop; archiepiscopacy. Fuller.

Pertaining to a chorepiscopus or his change or authority.

Governed by bishops; as, an episcopal church.

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

The doctrine and usages of Episcopalians; episcopacy.

By episcopal authority; in an episcopal manner.

A resinous product of the kauri, found in the form of yellow or brown lumps in the ground where the trees have grown. It is used for making varnish, and as a substitute for amber.

Pertaining to microscopy, or to the use of the microscope. Huxley.

Not Episcopal; not pertaining to the Episcopal church or system.

Of or pertaining to syncope; resembling syncope.

A yellowish translucent resin resembling copal, found as a fossil in alluvial soils, with beds of lignite, or on the seashore in many places. It takes a fine polish, and is used for pipe mouthpieces, beads, etc., and as a basis for a fine varnish. By friction, it becomes strongly electric.

superintends the conduct of the suffragan bishops in his province, and also exercises episcopal authority in his own diocese.

or office of an archbishop; the see or province over which archbishop exercises archiepiscopal authority.

A prefix signifying chief, arch; as, architect, archiepiscopal. In Biol. and Anat. it usually means primitive, original, ancestral; as, archipterygium, the primitive fin or wing.

Having its own head; independent of episcopal or patriarchal jurisdiction, as certain Greek churches.

In the Roman Catholic, Greek, and Anglican or Protestant Episcopal churches, one ordained to the highest order of the ministry, superior to the priesthood, and generally claiming to be a successor of the Apostles. The bishop is usually the spiritual head or ruler of a diocese, bishopric, or see. Bishop in partibus [inf…

Bishoplike; episcopal. [Obs.]