a. [f. L. episcop-us bishop + -ABLE.] Qualified for appointment as a bishop.
1676. Marvell, Gen. Councils, Wks. 1875, IV. 132. The deacons … would prick on to render themselves capable and episcopable, upon the first vacancy.
1680. Hobbes, Considerations, 43. The rest of the Clergy, Bishops and Episcopable men.
1884. Pall Mall Gaz., 31 May, 12/1. The Prime Minister has taken four years to discover that episcopable men exist outside his own ecclesiastical party.
