diocesan
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Middle French diocesain.
Pronunciation[edit]
Adjective[edit]
diocesan (not comparable)
- Pertaining to a diocese.
- 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin, published 2010, page 378:
- Diocesan bureaucracies were both symptom and cause of this.
Derived terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
pertaining to a diocese
Noun[edit]
diocesan (plural diocesans)
- The bishop of a diocese.
- An inhabitant of a diocese.
- 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 121:
- The bishop of Chartres indignantly informed the king that his diocesans were dying like flies and eating grass like sheep, and indeed both the king and Fleury got a fright when their coaches were stopped in the Paris countryside by peasants crying out ‘Famine! Bread!’ rather than ‘Vive le Roi!’
Translations[edit]
inhabitant of a diocese
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