diocesan
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diocesan
- /dʌɪˈɒsɪsən/ UK
- /daɪˈɑsɪsən/ US
Where it comes from
From Middle French diocesain.
adjective
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Pertaining to a diocese.
Diocesan bureaucracies were both symptom and cause of this.
Similar: diocesian
noun diocesans
- The bishop of a diocese.
- An inhabitant of a diocese. The bishop of Chartres indignantly informed the king that his diocesans were dying like flies and eating grass like sheep, and indeed both the king and Fleury got a fright when their coaches were stopped in the Paris countryside by peasants crying out ‘Famine! Bread!’ rather than ‘Vive le Roi!’
Translations
Talk about this word "diocesan." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/diocesan. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. diocesan. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/diocesan "diocesan." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/diocesan.Cite this
@misc{diocesan_2026,
title = {diocesan},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
url = {https://micwyn.com/word/diocesan},
urldate = {2026-11-06}
}
