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Definition of Episcopalian
1. Adjective. Of or pertaining to or characteristic of the Episcopal church. "Married by an Episcopalian minister"
Category relationships: Faith, Religion, Religious Belief
Partainyms: Episcopal Church, Episcopal Church
2. Noun. A member of the Episcopal church.
Definition of Episcopalian
1. a. Pertaining to bishops, or government by bishops; episcopal; specifically, of or relating to the Protestant Episcopal Church.
2. n. 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.
Definition of Episcopalian
1. Noun. An adherent of the Episcopal Churches of America or Scotland. ¹
2. Adjective. episcopal, pertaining to a bishop of any church ¹
3. Adjective. Episcopalian ¹
4. Noun. Episcopalian ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Episcopalian
Literary usage of Episcopalian
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. History of English Nonconformity from Wiclif to the Close of the Nineteenth by Henry William Clark (1911)
"to say nothing of an occasional Episcopalian, shifted to and fro and dropped ...
The " occasional Episcopalian " spoken of as finding a place in a ..."
2. History of England from the Accession of James I. to the Outbreak of the by Samuel Rawson Gardiner (1884)
"The Episcopalian party Only partisan rancour can throw the blame of the Civil
War on either side exclusively. Pym, far-sighted as he was on > CJ ii. 289. ..."
3. A History of England by James Franck Bright (1880)
"This practically withdrew all legislation since the year 1633. The consequence
of this was that Episcopalian the p^^ation brought down by Sharp, ..."
4. The American Revolution by George Otto Trevelyan (1905)
"The Episcopalian clergy of America were not so universally Tory as the Presbyterian
and Congregational 1 Ambrose Serle to Lord Dartmouth ; New York, ..."
5. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1909)
"... CHARLES WESLEY: Method- diet Episcopalian; b. at Boston Feb. 3, 1846. He >tudied
at Wesleyan University (BA, 1870), and held pastorates at Guilford, ..."
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