Definition of "bishop" []

• A high-ranking Christian cleric, in modern churches usually in charge of a diocese and in some churches regarded as having received the highest ordination in unbroken succession from the apostles. (noun)
• Games A usually miter-shaped chess piece that can move diagonally across any number of unoccupied spaces. (noun)
• Mulled port spiced with oranges, sugar, and cloves. (noun)

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• "One can make a meta-linguistic move and use paraphrases like ˜the bishop mentioned first™ and the ˜bishop mentioned second™, but precisely which bishop was mentioned first?"
• "What image of a bishop, for instance, could possibly form in his mind when I rapped our code-sign for _bishop_?"
• "[641: 3] "You ought to know that the bishop is in the Church and the Church in the bishop, and _if any be not with the bishop_, that _he is not in the Church_.""