archiepiscopal, a.
(-skəpəl)
[f. as prec. + -al1.]
Of, pertaining to, or of the nature of, an archbishop. Hence archieˈpiscopalship n.
| 1611 Speed Hist. Gt. Brit. viii. iii. 385 His Archiepiscopall and sacred calling. 1776 Gibbon Decl. & F. I. xxi. 594 He refused to fill the vacancy of the archiepiscopal throne. 1869 Freeman Norm. Conq. III. xiii. 310 Either the young king or his successive archiepiscopal advisers. 1606 T. Whetenhall Disc. Abuses Ch. 120 Cardinalship, Patriarkship, Archiepiscopalship, & briefly that whole Episcopall degree. |