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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
bishop .
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Examples
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He would be bishoped here, bishoped there, before the eyes of all palatial men and women, till life would be a burden to him.
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In that county burnt milk is still said to be "bishoped."
In a Green Shade A Country Commentary Maurice Hewlett 1892
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All over the country the farmers and horse-dealers knew that neither Jasper nor Panuel ever bishoped a gry, or indulged in any other horse-dealing tricks.
Aylwin Theodore Watts-Dunton 1873
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When he was brought before the Court, Bishop Nicholson, a kind-hearted and easy-natured prelate, asked him the number of his children, and how many of them had been _bishoped_?
The Complete Works of Whittier John Greenleaf Whittier 1849
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When he was brought before the Court, Bishop Nicholson, a kind-hearted and easy-natured prelate, asked him the number of his children, and how many of them had been _bishoped_?
Old Portraits, Part 1, from Volume VI., The Works of Whittier: Old Portraits and Modern Sketches John Greenleaf Whittier 1849
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When he was brought before the Court, Bishop Nicholson, a kind-hearted and easy-natured prelate, asked him the number of his children, and how many of them had been _bishoped_?
Old Portraits, Modern Sketches, Personal Sketches and Tributes Complete, Volume VI., the Works of Whittier John Greenleaf Whittier 1849
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He would be bishoped here, and bishoped there, before the eyes of all palatial men and women, till life would be a burden to him.
The Last Chronicle of Barset Anthony Trollope 1848
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