episcopant
English
editNoun
editepiscopant (plural episcopants)
- (Christianity, obsolete) A bishop.
- 1641 June or July, John Milton, Of Prelatical Episcopacy, and Whether It may be Deduc’d from the Apostolical Times by Virtue of Those Testimonies which are Alledg’d to that Purpose in Some Late Treatises; […]; republished in A Complete Collection of the Historical, Political, and Miscellaneous Works of John Milton, […], volume I, Amsterdam [actually London: s.n.], 1698, →OCLC, page 246:
- [T]he interceſſion of all theſe Apoſtolick Fathers could not prevail vvith them to alter their reſolved Decree of reducing into order their uſurping and over-provender'd Epiſcopants; […]
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(See the entry for “episcopant”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)