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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.

That form of episcopacy in which the chief power is in the hands of archbishops.

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

The doctrine and usages of Episcopalians; episcopacy.

Episcopacy. [Obs.] Jer. Taylor.

h a son in the world; to launch a business project or enterprise. All art is used to sink episcopacy, and launch presbytery in England. Eikon Basilike.

Prelacy; episcopacy.

To uphold or encourage prelacy; to exercise prelatical functions. An episcopacy that began then to prelatize. Milton.

us; as, pseudo-apostle, a false apostle; pseudo- clergy, false or spurious clergy; pseudo-episcopacy, pseudo-form, pseudo-martyr, pseudo-philosopher. Also used adjectively.

ples of government, etc. The Whig leaders, however, were much more desirous to get rid of Episcopacy than to prove themselves consummate publicists and logicians. Macaulay.

Corrupted; imperfect; impaired; weakned. So great is his antipathy against episcopacy, that, if a seraphim himself should be a bishop, he would either find or make some sick feathers in his wings. Fuller. Sick bay (Naut.), an apartment in a vessel, used as the ship's hospital. -- Sick bed, the bed upon which a person…