Definition of Bishoped

1. bishop [v] - See also: bishop

Lexicographical Neighbors of Bishoped

bishop's-weed
bishop's-wort
bishop's cap
bishop's collar
bishop's collars
bishop's hat
bishop's length
bishop's pine
bishop's throne
bishop pine
bishop sleeve
bishop sleeves
bishopdom
bishopdoms
bishoped (current term)
bishoping
bishopless
bishoplike
bishoply
bishopric
bishoprick
bishopricks
bishoprics
bishopry
bishops
bishopsweed
bishounen
bishydroxamic
bishydroxamic acid

Literary usage of Bishoped

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Illustrated Horse Management: Containing Descriptive Remarks Upon by Edward Mayhew (1864)
"The author has not lately seen a specimen of bishoped teeth. ... He who ventures where bishoped horses are to be found, should familiarize his eye with the ..."

2. The Rhetoric of John Donne's Verse by Wightman Fletcher Melton (1906)
"In Chambers this last line is given : Except confirm'd and bishoped by thee. presumably meaning that the -ed of ' bishoped' is to be accented. ..."

3. The Angler's Note-book and Naturalist's Record: A Repertory of Fact, Inquiry (1880)
"MGW " bishoped " : STUNG BY A BISHOP ... friends of his own size and of larger growth, for the fishing population greatly dread being "bishoped. ..."

4. The English Review (1850)
"... as the chancellor or the treasurer ceased to be chancellor or treasurer, by the death of the king,— that bishops by kings' deaths were un-bishoped, ..."

5. The Cambridge "Apostles" by Frances Mary Brookfield (1907)
"He hummed and hawed a good deal, but finding himself out-bishoped, ... How are the parsons be- bishoped ! ! ! Charles Fellows has discovered ten 13—(2318) ..."

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