How to pronounce “bishop”

Meaning

• [Noun]
• (Christianity) An overseer of congregations: either any such overseer, generally speaking, or (in Eastern Orthodoxy, Catholicism, Anglicanism, etc.) an official in the church hierarchy (actively or nominally) governing a diocese, supervising the church's priests, deacons, and property in its territory.
• (obsolete) The holder of the Greek or Roman position of episcopus, supervisor over the public dole of grain, etc.
• (obsolete) Any watchman, inspector, or overlooker.
• A chief of the Festival of Fools or St. Nicholas Day.
• (chess) The chess piece denoted ♗ or ♝ which moves along diagonal lines and developed from the shatranj alfil ("elephant") and was originally known as the aufil or archer in English.
• Any of various African birds of the genus Euplectes; a kind of weaverbird closely related to the widowbirds.
• (dialectal) A ladybug or ladybird, beetles of the family Coccinellidae.
• A flowering plant of the genus Bifora.
• A sweet drink made from wine, usually with oranges, lemons, and sugar; mulled and spiced port.
• (US, archaic) A bustle.
• (UK, dialectal, archaic) A children's smock or pinafore.
• [Verb]
• (Christianity) To act as a bishop, to perform the duties of a bishop, especially to confirm another's membership in the church.
• (Christianity) To make a bishop.
• (Christianity, rare) To provide with bishops.
• (UK, dialectal) To permit food (especially milk) to burn while cooking (from bishops' role in the inquisition or as mentioned in the quotation below, of horses).
• (by extension, of equestrianism) To make a horse seem younger, particularly by manipulation of its teeth.

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