Obs. rare. In 8 episcopacide. [f. L. episcop-us bishop + -(I)CIDE 2.] The crime of murdering a bishop.
1692. in Coles.
1708. J. Chamberlayne, St. Gt. Brit., I. II. vii. (1741), 66. The Law of England … made the Offences of Parricide and Episcopacide equal.
1751. Chambers, Cycl., Episcopacide, the crime of murdering a bishop by one of his own clergy.
