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archepiscopal

archepiscopal \archepiscopal\ adj. 1. of or pertaining to an archbishop. an archepiscopal see

Syn: archiepiscopal

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archepiscopal

a. Of or pertaining to an archbishop or an archbishopric. alt. Of or pertaining to an archbishop or an archbishopric.

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archepiscopal

adj. of or associated with an archbishop; "anarchiepiscopal see" [syn: archiepiscopal]

Usage examples of "archepiscopal".

One minute it would seem they were all in a guarded suite of rooms in the palace there on the archepiscopal estate, and the next minute, poof, they were gone.

Norwich drill field, a wrinkled, white-haired and -bearded old man wearing the garb of a high-ranking churchman sat in converse with an olive-skinned man of middle years in a candle-lit chamber of the archepiscopal palace, Yorkminster.

In the port of Palmas the archepiscopal party and their baggage were all transshipped to a waiting Genoan galleass, Spaventoso, all bristling with cannon.

Only the old man and some of his guards, nobles, and knights actually entered the city, riding straight to Yorkminster and the archepiscopal palace.

Tammaron looked decidedly uneasy, Hubert drew himself up in his full archepiscopal dignity.

Making toward the archepiscopal palace, the column could not manage any pace faster than a slow walk through streets thronged with foreignersScots, Irish, Burgundians, Germans from several parts of the Empire, Livonians, a scattering of Kalmyks or Tatars.

He rose early and was clothed in his archepiscopal miter and the pallium which his friend John of Salisbury had fetched for him from the Pope.

The skip in which she had been found contained mailbags from the Canterbury area--had a fanatical religious order seized the children, perhaps a group of deranged high churchmen opposed to the liberal archepiscopal establishment?

Gray son, Archbishop of Sorandor, surveyed the mounting crowd in the streets below his archepiscopal palace with awe and not a little apprehension as he awaited the hour of the Coronation.

Some weeks previously and many leagues to the north of that Norwich drill field, a wrinkled, white-haired and -bearded old man wearing the garb of a high-ranking churchman sat in converse with an olive-skinned man of middle years in a candle-lit chamber of the archepiscopal palace, Yorkminster.

Arrived at the archepiscopal estate southwest of York City, Bass proceeded with doing all that was necessary for getting the galloglaiches accustomed to the pairs of new flintlock horse pistols delivered in their absence by Pete Fairley.