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archbishoprick

archbishoprick is the obsolete spelling of archbishopric.

Meaning of archbishopric

Noun

archbishopric (plural archbishoprics)

  1. The rank or office of an archbishop.
    • Near-synonym: see
    Synonyms:
    archiepiscopacy, see
  2. The jurisdiction of an archbishop.
    • St. Salvadore in the Bahia los todos Santos, is an Archbishoprick and Seat of the Viceroy, the chief Port of Trade for Importation […]1724, Daniel Defoe, chapter 11, in A General History of the Pyrates, London: T. Warner, page 213

Forms of archbishoprick

pluralarchbishopricks

Questions about archbishoprick

What is archbishoprick the obsolete spelling of?
Archbishoprick is the obsolete spelling of archbishopric.

Words near archbishoprick in the dictionary

  1. archbishopdom
  2. archbishopess
  3. archbishopesses
  4. archbishophood
  5. archbishopric
  6. archbishoprick
  7. archbishopricks
  8. archbishoprics
  9. archbishopries
  10. archbishopry
  11. archbishops

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