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EPISCOPACY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does episcopacy mean?
• EPISCOPACY (noun)
The noun EPISCOPACY has 1 sense:
1. the collective body of bishops
Familiarity information: EPISCOPACY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The collective body of bishops
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Synonyms:
episcopacy; episcopate
Hypernyms ("episcopacy" is a kind of...):
people ((plural) any group of human beings (men or women or children) collectively)
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