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  • noun Obsolete spelling of bishopric.

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Examples

  • Boy, you sure have a "bishoprick" like obessision with the church, left it now can't leave it alone?

    unknown title 2009

  • Boy, you sure have a "bishoprick" like obessision with the church, left it now can't leave it alone?

    unknown title 2009

  • Boy, you sure have a "bishoprick" like obessision with the church, left it now can't leave it alone?

    unknown title 2009

  • And so the Apostles were the first Christian bishops, instituted by Christ himself: in which sense the apostleship of Judas is called "his bishoprick."

    Leviathan 2007

  • For it is written in the book of Psalms, Let his habitation be desolate, and let no man dwell therein: and his bishoprick let another take.

    Villaraigosa And Nunez Cut And Run - Video Report 2006

  • For it is written in the book of Psalms, Let his habitation be desolate, and let no man dwell therein: and his bishoprick let another take.

    Probably Just One Of Those Funny Coincidences 2006

  • Bishop of Chiapa who was moved to passion against certain conquerors in his bishoprick with whom he had persistent disputes, as I knew when I passed through Chiapa and Guatemala [17].

    History of the Incas Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa

  • I have no work at hand to which I can refer for the date of Milling's death, but if 1492 be correct, perhaps he may have been promoted to a bishoprick.

    Notes and Queries, Number 38, July 20, 1850 Various

  • Commenced negociations for the conversion of the abbacy into a bishoprick.

    Ely Cathedral Anonymous

  • It is said that this poem procured Tegner the bishoprick of

    The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 333, September 27, 1828 Various

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