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bisceop-dóm

  • noun [ masculine ]
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bisceop-dóm, biscop-dóm, biscep-dóm, es; m.
[bisceop a bishop, dóm judgment]
a bishop's doom, excommunication; episcopi judicium, excommunicatio
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  • Sýn hí begen ðæs bisceopdómes scyldige

    let them both be guilty of the bishop's doom [excommunication],

      Bd. 4, 5; S. 573, note 1.
the province of a bishop, a bishopric; episcopi provincia, episcopatus
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  • He onféng biscopdóm Parisiace hátte

    he received the bishopric called Paris;

    accepto episcopatu Parisiacæ civitatis,
      Bd. 3, 7; S. 530, note 10.
  • Ps. Lamb. 108, 8.
  • Wine heóld ðone biscep-dóm iii geár

    Wine held the bishopric three years,

      Chr. 660; Erl. 34, 7.
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v.  biscep-dóm biscop-dóm.
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  • bisceop-dóm, n.