"episcopacy" meaning in All languages combined

{
  "derived": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "monepiscopacy"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "episcopate",
        "3": "-cy",
        "alt1": "episcopa(te)"
      },
      "expansion": "episcopa(te) + -cy",
      "name": "af"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "episcopal",
        "3": "-cy",
        "alt1": "episcopa(l)"
      },
      "expansion": "episcopa(l) + -cy",
      "name": "af"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From episcopa(te) + -cy and/or episcopa(l) + -cy.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "episcopacies",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "episcopacy (plural episcopacies)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2009, John Sadler, Glencoe, Amberley, published 2009, page 16",
          "text": "Further religious division occurred during the post-Restoration decades in the reign of Charles II, when strenuous and violent efforts were made by the Government to impose an episcopacy on the Scottish Church.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The office of bishop and the governance of a church (a religious denomination) by bishops."
      ],
      "id": "en-episcopacy-en-noun-Ha5DYw6Z",
      "links": [
        [
          "office",
          "office"
        ]
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "_dis1": "66 34",
          "code": "io",
          "lang": "Ido",
          "sense": "government of the church by bishops",
          "word": "episkopeso"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "66 34",
          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "government of the church by bishops",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "episcopato"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "6 94",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "14 86",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms suffixed with -cy",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Bishops collectively: Synonym of episcopate."
      ],
      "id": "en-episcopacy-en-noun-XP5EBTgu",
      "links": [
        [
          "episcopate",
          "episcopate#English"
        ]
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "_dis1": "6 94",
          "sense": "congregationalism",
          "word": "Congregationalism"
        }
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "_dis1": "12 88",
          "code": "io",
          "lang": "Ido",
          "sense": "bishops collectively",
          "word": "episkoparo"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "12 88",
          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "bishops collectively",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "episcopato"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ɪˈpɪskəpəsi/",
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "bishopdom"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "bishophood"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "bishopric"
    }
  ],
  "word": "episcopacy"
}

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  "categories": [
    "English 5-syllable words",
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English nouns",
    "English terms suffixed with -cy",
    "English terms with IPA pronunciation"
  ],
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "monepiscopacy"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "episcopate",
        "3": "-cy",
        "alt1": "episcopa(te)"
      },
      "expansion": "episcopa(te) + -cy",
      "name": "af"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "episcopal",
        "3": "-cy",
        "alt1": "episcopa(l)"
      },
      "expansion": "episcopa(l) + -cy",
      "name": "af"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From episcopa(te) + -cy and/or episcopa(l) + -cy.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "episcopacies",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "episcopacy (plural episcopacies)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "sense": "congregationalism",
      "word": "Congregationalism"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2009, John Sadler, Glencoe, Amberley, published 2009, page 16",
          "text": "Further religious division occurred during the post-Restoration decades in the reign of Charles II, when strenuous and violent efforts were made by the Government to impose an episcopacy on the Scottish Church.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The office of bishop and the governance of a church (a religious denomination) by bishops."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "office",
          "office"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "Bishops collectively: Synonym of episcopate."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "episcopate",
          "episcopate#English"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ɪˈpɪskəpəsi/",
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "bishopdom"
    },
    {
      "word": "bishophood"
    },
    {
      "word": "bishopric"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "io",
      "lang": "Ido",
      "sense": "government of the church by bishops",
      "word": "episkopeso"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "government of the church by bishops",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "episcopato"
    },
    {
      "code": "io",
      "lang": "Ido",
      "sense": "bishops collectively",
      "word": "episkoparo"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "bishops collectively",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "episcopato"
    }
  ],
  "word": "episcopacy"
}