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bisceop-scír

  • noun [ feminine ]
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bisceop-scír, biscop-scír, e; f. [bisceop a bishop, scír a province] .
the province of a bishop, a diocese; episcopi provincia, diœcesis = διoίκησιs, parochia =
παρoικία
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  • Bisceopscír diœcesis vel

    parochia,

      Ælfc. Gl. 68; Som. 69, 123; Wrt. Voc. 42, 4.
  • Ðæt nǽnig bisceop óðres bisceopscíre onswóge

    ut nullus episcoporum parochiam alterius invadat,

      Bd. 4, 5; S. 572, 32: 4, 13; S. 582. 1: 4. 6; S. 573. 39.
  • He todǽlde on twá biscopscíre West-Seaxna mǽgþe

    he divided the province of the WestSaxons into two dioceses,

      3, 7; S. 530, 6, 10.
the office of a bishop, episcopate; episcopatus
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  • Seó biscopscír Wihte ðæs eálondes belimpeþ to Daniele Wintan ceastre bisceope

    episcopatus Vectæ insulæ ad Danihelem pertinet episcopum Ventæ civitatis,

      5, 23; S. 646, 22.
  • Se forlét ða bisceopscíre

    he left the episcopate;

    relicto episcopatu,
      3, 21; S. 551, 38.
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v.  biscop-scír bisceop-ríce.
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