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biteshipe

biteshipe is the alternative spelling of bitesheep.

Meaning of bitesheep

Noun

bitesheep (plural bitesheeps)

  1. (derogatory, obsolete, slur) A bishop, particularly a Catholic bishop persecuting Protestants.
    • Wherefore mine advice and most earnest desire is, with all other of your loving friends, that you still keep that order with those bloodthirsty bitesheeps (bishops, I should say) that you have begun. For though in conclusion they will surely have your blood, yet shall they come by it with shame...c. 1556, John Foxe, “A Letter of John Careless, answering to the loving Epistle or Letter sent to him before by Master John Philpot”, in Rev. Stephen Reed Cattley, editor, The Acts and Monuments of...

Forms of biteshipe

pluralbiteshipes

Questions about biteshipe

What is biteshipe the alternative spelling of?
Biteshipe is the alternative spelling of bitesheep.

Words near biteshipe in the dictionary

  1. bites the dust
  2. bites the hand that feeds one
  3. bitesful
  4. bitesheep
  5. bitesheeps
  6. biteshipe
  7. biteshipes
  8. bitesize
  9. bitesome
  10. bitest
  11. bitesticular

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