English Dictionary

bishop

/ˈbɪʃəp/

verb

(Christianity) To act as a bishop, to perform the duties of a bishop, especially to confirm another's membership in the church. / (by extension, jocularly, obsolete) To confirm (in its other senses).

He was ordained as a bishop last year.

意味（1）

(Christianity) To act as a bishop, to perform the duties of a bishop, especially to confirm another's membership in the church.

意味（2）

(by extension, jocularly, obsolete) To confirm (in its other senses).

Why sent they it by Felton to be bishoped at Paules?

意味（3）

(Christianity) To make a bishop.

Thys hathe bene often tymes... sene in preachers before they were byshoppyd or benificed.

意味（4）

(Christianity, rare) To provide with bishops.

Italy would be well bishoped if her episcopacy... did not exceed fifty-nine.

意味（5）

(UK, dialectal) To permit food (especially milk) to burn while cooking (from bishops' role in the inquisition or as mentioned in the quotation below, of horses).

If the porage be burned to, or the meate ouer rosted, we say the bishop hath put his foote in the potte or the bishop hath played the cooke, because the bishops burn who they lust and whosoever displeaseth them.

意味（6）

(by extension, of equestrianism) To make a horse seem younger, particularly by manipulation of its teeth.

This way of making a Horse look young is... called Bishoping.