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Diocesan

//daɪˈɑsɪsən// adj, noun

Definitions

Adjective

1
Pertaining to a diocese. not-comparable
"Diocesan bureaucracies were both symptom and cause of this."

Adjective

1
belonging to or governing a diocese wordnet

Noun

1
The bishop of a diocese.
2
a bishop having jurisdiction over a diocese wordnet
3
An inhabitant of a diocese.
"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!’"

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle French diocesain.

Etymology 2

From Middle French diocesain.

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