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archepiscopal en · ADJ

Etymology

See archiepiscopal.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Of or pertaining to an archbishop or an archbishopric.
    • A deep snow was falling; and the wind which drove it heavily against the casements of the archepiscopal palace was roaring in the wide chimney,[…]. 1847, Julia Perdoe, Louis the Fourteenth: And the Court of France in the Seventeenth Century, volume 3, page 167:
    • Important pieces of evidence point to the intensified activities of the archepiscopal curia's criminal forum. 1996, Michele Mancino, “5: Ecclesiastical Justice and the Counter-Reformation: Notes on the Diocesan Criminal Court of Naples”, in Eric Arthur Johnson, Eric H. Monkkonen, editors, The Civilization of Crime: Violence in Town and Country Since the Middle Ages, page 131:
    • Johannes Magnus, Brask's protégé, won the archepiscopal sweepstakes at the expense of Master Knut, Sunnanväder's candidate. 2010, James L. Larson, Reforming the North: The Kingdoms and Churches of Scandinavia, 1520–1545, page 177:

Forms

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Relateds

archiepiscopate

Synonyms

diocesan (of or pertaining to an archbishopric)