Definition of "diocess" []

• An obsolete form of diocese. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "Italy is harder to track because, like Ireland, it has kept its old mediæval diocess to a large extent."
• "Or it could be that some of them have benefitted in one way or another from government donations which benefitted either their diocess or their pockets?"
• "They suffered under Maurice, bishop of Rochester, in whose diocess they lived."