Bishoply

a. [f. BISHOP sb. + -LY¹:—OE. bisceoplíc.] Episcopal.

c. 890.  K. Ælfred, Bæda, V. xviii. (Bosw.). Ðæt biscoplíce lif.

c. 1475.  Found. St. Barthol. Ch., I. vii. (1886), 55. Bysshoply auctoryte.

1549.  Latimer, Serm. bef. Edw. VI. (Arb.), 25. Byshoplye dutyes and orders.

1600.  Hooker, Eccl. Pol., VII. iv. § 3. The same kind of bishoply power.

1642.  Sir E. Dering, Sp. on Relig., 88. I never liked the bishoply injunctions.