a. [f. as prec. + -AL 1.] Of, pertaining to, or of the nature of, an archbishop. Hence Archiepiscopalship sb.
1611. Speed, Hist. Gt. Brit., VIII. iii. 385. His Archiepiscopall and sacred calling.
1776. Gibbon, Decl. & F., I. xxi. 594. He refused to fill the vacancy of the archiepiscopal throne.
1869. Freeman, Norm. Conq., III. xiii. 310. Either the young king or his successive archiepiscopal advisers.
1606. Whetenhall, Disc. Abuses Ch., 120. Cardinalship, Patriarkship, Archiepiscopalship, & briefly that whole Episcopall degree.
