Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A bishop's see or seat.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A bishop's seat or see.
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Examples
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But the town of Sherborne, once the bishop-stool of the sainted Aldhelm, who overlooked a vast diocese comprising a great portion of the West Saxon kingdom, has its Abbey now used as its Parish Church.
Bell's Cathedrals: Wimbourne Minster and Christchurch Priory A Short History of Their Foundation and a Description of Their Buildings Thomas Perkins 1874
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York Minster, the lineal descendant of Eadwine's wooden church, remains dedicated to St. Peter; and the archbishops still sit in the bishop-stool of Paulinus.
Early Britain Anglo-Saxon Britain Grant Allen 1873
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Mercia were also made into dioceses, the Huiccii having their bishop-stool at Worcester; the Hecans, at Hereford; and the Middle
Early Britain Anglo-Saxon Britain Grant Allen 1873
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He placed his bishop-stool not far from the royal town of Bamborough, at Lindisfarne, the Holy Island of the Northumbrian coast.
Early Britain Anglo-Saxon Britain Grant Allen 1873
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