a., adv. [see -LIKE.]
A. adj. Like a bishop; formerly, of or pertaining to a bishop, episcopal.
[c. 890 (see BISHOPLY).]
1544. Suppl. Hen. VIII., 28. This … worldely byshoplike estate.
1584. Fenner, Def. Ministers (1587), 73. Bishoplike iurisdiction.
1641. Prynne, Antip., 260. A Bishop like application.
1868. Freeman, Norm. Conq. (1876), II. vii. 114. The new prelate did nothing bishoplike.
B. adv. After the manner of a bishop.
c. 1555. Harpsfield, Divorce Hen. VIII. (1878), 115. He did full well and bishoplike.
1621. P. Baynes, Dioces. Tryall, Pref. 3. Telling him very bishoplike, that it were a good turn to lay him by the heels for so doing.
