Bishops is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for BISHOPS in dictionary:

VERB:
• BISHOP, to fill, or otherwise tamper with, the teeth of a horse, to make it seem younger
NOUN:
• a senior member of the Christian clergy, usually in charge of a diocese and empowered to confer holy orders.
• an African weaver bird, the male of which has red, orange, yellow, or black plumage.
• a chess piece, typically with its top shaped like a mitre, that can move in any direction along a diagonal on which it stands. Each player starts the game with two bishops, one moving on white squares and the other on black.
• mulled and spiced wine.
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to appoint as a bishop (the head of a diocese)

Words related to BISHOPS

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How to use BISHOPS in a sentence

• The Bishop of Rome had the largest number of dependent bishops, and was the first of clerical dignitaries.
• A dispute had raged for years as to the jurisdiction of the bishops of Chichester over the abbots of Battle.
• Until the reign of Stephen much of the business of the bishops was done in the courts of the hundred and the shire.
• Henry was forced to content himself with sending a detachment of bishops and clergy to watch the trial.
• The conference consisted of some sixty or seventy ministers of the gospel, with these two Bishops at their head.
• Alaric and his Visigoths were Arians, and between them and the bishops of Southern Gaul, nearly all orthodox Catholics, there were permanent ill-will and distrust.
• He carried many of the ornaments of Old Rome thither, but consecrated them as far as possible, and he surrounded himself with Bishops and clergy.
• The Bishops and Knights are practically considered of equal value, although there is a difference in the estimate here given.
• He speaks in more exalted terms of the authority of bishops than any preceding writer.
• Influential bishops sometimes introduced them by their own authority, but the practice was regarded with suspicion, and seems to have been considered irregular.
• But one of the priests whom they call bishops, who had come from the East, said that he wished to have a word with the emperor.
• Wherein if for my sake they would not, yet ought the bishops for their owne sakes to haue resisted him.
• This was prevented by the interference of the Protestant Ambassadors, and the Bulgarians rallied to the defense of their bishops.
• The mayor and other leading men had gone to the house of the Blackfriars to meet the Bishops of London and Exeter.
• During the Middle Ages the Bishops of Rome sat in the seat of the Roman Emperors.
• This effigy belongs to the Perpendicular period, when a number of memorials were erected to earlier bishops.
• The result was that, for the present, the Bishops held aloof.
• The only men of any influence in the community we have seen to be the bishops, who, while steadily gaining in rank and power, stood forth as defenders of the people.
• Peter himself and sent it to the three kings, Pepin, Charles, and Carloman, to the bishops, abbots, priests and monks, the dukes, counts, armies, and people of Francia.
• In religions ceremonies the bishops of Ravenna took a place immediately behind the pope, and in ecclesiastical assemblies they sat at the right hand of the pontiff.
• A Jacobite believes in the divine right of Bishops.
• And it is to these sensible people on both sides, as the bishops and I must needs think those who agree with us, that my present observations are addressed.
• The clergy, and even the bishops, took up arms and fought against the enemies of their faith.
• The bishops, however, continued, each in his own diocese, to act with such vigour as they possessed.

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