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-ably
unknown · 78% connection
A suffix composed of -able and the adverbial suffix -ly; as, favorably.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: suffix, signifying, dominion, jurisdiction, bishopric.
-ance
unknown · 78% connection
A suffix signifying action; also, quality or state; as, assistance, resistance, appearance, elegance. See -ancy.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: suffix, signifying, dominion, jurisdiction, bishopric.
-blast
unknown · 78% connection
A suffix or terminal formative, used principally in biological terms, and signifying growth, formation; as, bioblast, epiblast, mesobl…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: suffix, signifying, dominion, jurisdiction, bishopric.
-derm
noun · 78% connection
A suffix or terminal formative, much used in anatomical terms, and signifying skin, integument, covering; as, blastoderm, ectoderm, et…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: suffix, signifying, dominion, jurisdiction, bishopric.
-dom
unknown · 78% connection
Jurisdiction or property and jurisdiction, dominion, as in kingdom earldom.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: suffix, signifying, dominion, jurisdiction, bishopric.
-ion
unknown · 78% connection
A noun suffix denoting act, process, result of an act or a process, thing acted upon, state, or condition; as, revolution, the act or…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: suffix, signifying, dominion, jurisdiction, bishopric.
Adultery
noun · 78% connection
The intrusion of a person into a bishopric during the life of the bishop.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: suffix, signifying, dominion, jurisdiction, bishopric.
Ambulatory
adjective · 78% connection
Accustomed to move from place to place; not stationary; movable; as, an ambulatory court, which exercises its jurisdiction in differen…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: suffix, signifying, dominion, jurisdiction, bishopric.
Archbishop
noun · 78% connection
A chief bishop; a church dignitary of the first class (often called a metropolitan or primate) who superintends the conduct of the suf…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: suffix, signifying, dominion, jurisdiction, bishopric.
Archbishopric
noun · 78% connection
The jurisdiction or office of an archbishop; the see or province over which archbishop exercises archiepiscopal authority.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: suffix, signifying, dominion, jurisdiction, bishopric.
Authority
noun · 78% connection
Legal or rightful power; a right to command or to act; power exercised buy a person in virtue of his office or trust; dominion; jurisd…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: suffix, signifying, dominion, jurisdiction, bishopric.
Betroth
verb · 78% connection
To nominate to a bishopric, in order to consecration.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: suffix, signifying, dominion, jurisdiction, bishopric.
Bishop
noun · 78% connection
In the Roman Catholic, Greek, and Anglican or Protestant Episcopal churches, one ordained to the highest order of the ministry, superi…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: suffix, signifying, dominion, jurisdiction, bishopric.
Bishopric
noun · 78% connection
A diocese; the district over which the jurisdiction of a bishop extends.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: suffix, signifying, dominion, jurisdiction, bishopric.
Chancery
noun · 78% connection
In England, formerly, the highest court of judicature next to the Parliament, exercising jurisdiction at law, but chiefly in equity; b…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: suffix, signifying, dominion, jurisdiction, bishopric.
Chorepiscopus
noun · 78% connection
A "country" or suffragan bishop, appointed in the ancient church by a diocesan bishop to exercise episcopal jurisdiction in a rural di…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: suffix, signifying, dominion, jurisdiction, bishopric.
Commissary
noun · 78% connection
An officer of the bishop, who exercises ecclesiastical jurisdiction in parts of the diocese at a distance from the residence of the bi…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: suffix, signifying, dominion, jurisdiction, bishopric.
Diocese
noun · 78% connection
The circuit or extent of a bishop's jurisdiction; the district in which a bishop exercises his ecclesiastical authority.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: suffix, signifying, dominion, jurisdiction, bishopric.
