archepiscopal
adjEtymology See archiepiscopal.
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Ecclesiastical, Lifestyle, Religion Of or pertaining to an archbishop or an archbishopric.
- A deep snow was falling; and the wind which drove it heavily against the casements of the archepiscopal palace was roaring in the wide chimney,[…].1847, Julia Perdoe, Louis the Fourteenth: And the Court of France in the Seventeenth Century, volume 3, page 167:
- Important pieces of evidence point to the intensified activities of the archepiscopal curia's criminal forum.1996, Michele Mancino, “5: Ecclesiastical Justice and the Counter-Reformation: Notes on the Diocesan Criminal Court of Naples”, in Eric Arthur Johnson, Eric H. Monkkonen, editors, The Civilization of Crime: Violence in Town and Country Since the Middle Ages, page 131:
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- Johannes Magnus, Brask's protégé, won the archepiscopal sweepstakes at the expense of Master Knut, Sunnanväder's candidate.2010, James L. Larson, Reforming the North: The Kingdoms and Churches of Scandinavia, 1520–1545, page 177:
- Synonyms
- diocesan
- Related terms
- archiepiscopate