episcopize

English

Verb

episcopize (third-person singular simple present episcopizes, present participle episcopizing, simple past and past participle episcopized)

1. (intransitive) To perform the duties of a bishop.
2. (transitive) To make a bishop of by consecration.
   • 1820, Robert Southey, The Life of John Wesley:

     An inclination to episcopize was evidently shown in this language; but Wesley did not yet venture upon the act

Related terms

• episcopal

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “episcopize”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)