Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of, relating to, or belonging to the Episcopal Church.
- adjective Of or advocating church government by bishops.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pertaining to government by bishops; relating to episcopacy.
- [capitalized] Same as
Episcopal , 2: as, the Episcopalian Church. - noun Properly, one who belongs to an episcopal church, or adheres to the episcopal form of church government and discipline; popularly [capitalized], a member of the Anglican Church in general, but more especially of some branch of that church specifically called Episcopal. See
episcopal .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Pertaining to bishops, or government by bishops; episcopal; specifically, of or relating to the Protestant Episcopal Church.
- noun One who belongs to an episcopal church, or adheres to the episcopal form of church government and discipline; a churchman; specifically, in the United States, a member of the Protestant Episcopal Church.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun An adherent of the
Episcopal Churches of America or Scotland.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective of or pertaining to or characteristic of the Episcopal church
- noun a member of the Episcopal church
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Examples
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: Before I was Anglican (I refuse to claim the title Episcopalian), I was a Baptist.
Stand Firm 2008
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SPARKS: He's the archbishop of the Anglican church, which you call the Episcopalian church in your country.
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Roosevelt made the old Establishment redundant with the New Deal generation (people like Alger Hiss, and formerly excluded ethnics; how Episcopalian is the establishment of today?).
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"You're thinking of the one we call Episcopalian?"
Prescott of Saskatchewan Harold Bindloss 1905
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Yes, we try to influence our children after they are born, but a parent who would give a child an injection to, say, insure they remain Episcopalian would be rightly seen as infringing on that child’s freedom of choice.
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It's often assumed that I'm Christian because I'm an American, an assumption that's not entirely without merit, as I was baptized Episcopalian, and my parents did take my sister and me fairly regularly to church when we were younger.
what did we do today, brain? jlundberg 2009
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At any rate, being included in the same list as Philip K. Dick -- who evidently identified as Episcopalian, which I hadn't known -- and Connie Willis is just fine with me.
Moi? Traditional? Susan Palwick 2007
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At any rate, being included in the same list as Philip K. Dick -- who evidently identified as Episcopalian, which I hadn't known -- and Connie Willis is just fine with me.
Archive 2007-02-01 Susan Palwick 2007
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I said:I was baptized Episcopalian when I was still a baby, and every so often, my parents would take me and my sister to church when we were kids, something that we both frankly did not like.
klima needs proofreaders jlundberg 2006
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I was baptized Episcopalian when I was still a baby, and every so often, my parents would take me and my sister to church when we were kids, something that we both frankly did not like.
zombie jesus day jlundberg 2006
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