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# The BFD Word of the Day
- URL: https://goodoil.news/the-bfd-word-of-the-day-410/
- Published: 2021-03-11T17:15:00.000Z
- Updated: 2021-02-12T00:45:07.000Z
- Author: David Theobald
- Tags: General, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-17 02:14

The word for today is…

episcopal (adjective) –  
1 : of or relating to a bishop  
2 : of, having, or constituting government by bishops  
3 capitalized : of or relating to the Protestant Episcopal Church representing the Anglican communion in the U.S.

Source : Online Etymology Dictionary

Etymology : mid-15c., “belonging to or characteristic of bishops,” from Late Latin episcopalis, from Latin episcopus “an overseer”. Reference to a church governed by bishops is 1752\. With a capital E-, the ordinary designation of the Anglican church in the U.S. and Scotland, so called because its bishops are superior to other clergy. Chambers’ “Cyclopaedia” (1751) has episcopicide “the murdering of a bishop.”

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