Word Meanings - EPISCOPY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Survey; superintendence. Milton. 2. Episcopacy. Jer. Taylor.

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• TAYLOR-WHITE PROCESS
  A process (invented about 1899 by Frederick W. Taylor and Maunsel B. White) for giving toughness to self-hardening steels. The steel is heated almost to fusion, cooled to a temperature of from 700º to 850º C. in molten lead, further cooled in
• SURVEYANCE
  Survey; inspection.
• MILTONIAN
  Miltonic. Lowell.
• MILTONIC
  Of, pertaining to, or resembling, Milton, or his writings; as, Miltonic prose.
• SURVEYING
  That branch of applied mathematics which teaches the art of determining the area of any portion of the earth's surface, the length and directions of the bounding lines, the contour of the surface, etc., with an accurate delineation of the whole
• SURVEYAL
  Survey. Barrow.
• SURVEYOR
  1. One placed to superintend others; an overseer; an inspector. Were 't not madness then, To make the fox surveyor of the fold Shak. 2. One who views and examines for the purpose of ascertaining the condition, quantity, or quality of anything;
• SURVEYORSHIP
  The office of a surveyor.
• SUPERINTENDENCE
  The act of superintending; care and oversight for the purpose of direction; supervision. Barrow. Syn. -- Inspection; oversight; care; direction; control; guidance.
• SURVEY
  1. To inspect, or take a view of; to view with attention, as from a high place; to overlook; as, to stand on a hill, and survey the surrounding country. Round he surveys and well might, where he stood, So high above. Milton. 2. To view
• EPISCOPACY
  Government of the church by bishops; church government by three distinct orders of ministers -- bishops, priests, and deacons -- of whom the bishops have an authority superior and of a different kind.
• RESURVEY
  To survey again or anew; to review. Shak.
• HAMILTON PERIOD
  A subdivision of the Devonian system of America; -- so named from Hamilton, Madison Co., New York. It includes the Marcellus, Hamilton, and Genesee epochs or groups. See the Chart of Geology.
• COAST AND GEODETIC SURVEY
  A bureau of the United States government charged with the topographic and hydrographic survey of the coast and the execution of belts of primary triangulation and lines of precise leveling in the interior. It now belongs to the Department
• ARCHIEPISCOPACY
  1. That form of episcopacy in which the chief power is in the hands of archbishops. 2. The state or dignity of an archbishop.