Meanings
nounepiscopant (plural episcopants)
plural episcopants
- obsoleteChristianityA bishop.
[T]he interceſſion of all theſe Apoſtolick Fathers could not prevaile vvith them to alter their reſolved decree of reducing into Order their uſurping, and over-provender'd Epiſcopants: […]
1641 June or July, [John Milton], Of Prelatical Episcopacy, and Whither It may be Deduc’d from the Apostolical Times by Vertue of Those Testimonies which are Alledg’d to that Purpose in Some Late Treatises: […], London: […] R[ichard] O[ulton] & G[regory] D[exter] for Thomas Underhill, […], →OCLC, page 21
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