Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An obsolete form of
diocese .
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Examples
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Italy is harder to track because, like Ireland, it has kept its old mediæval diocess to a large extent.
Two Years after Summorum Pontificum: The Situation in France 2009
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Or it could be that some of them have benefitted in one way or another from government donations which benefitted either their diocess or their pockets?
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Thomas Watts, of Billericay, in Essex, of the diocess of London, was a linen draper.
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Dr.adful persecutions were at this time carried on at Lincoln, under Dr. Longland, the bishop of that diocess.
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After a repetition of the former questions, he was asked his name, surname, baptism, confirmation, place of abode, in what parish? in what diocess? under what bishop?
Life in the Grey Nunnery at Montreal Sarah J. Richardson
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Miles Coverdale was also excluded from Exeter, and Dr. Vesie placed in that diocess.
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Cardinal Cole published a list of fifty-four Articles, containing instructions to the clergy of his diocess of Canterbury, some of which are too ludicrous and puerile to excite any other sentiment than laughter in these days.
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One of the first steps after the divorce was to prevent preaching throughout his diocess, but this narrow measure had rather a political view than a religious one, as there were many who inveighed against the king's conduct.
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They suffered under Maurice, bishop of Rochester, in whose diocess they lived.
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In 1481, an edict was issued against the Jews; before the end of the year, in the single diocess of Cadiz, two thousand Jews were burnt alive!
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