diocesan
adjective
- related to a diocese
noun
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Pronunciation: /dʌɪˈɒsɪsən/ / /daɪˈɑsɪsən/
adj
Etymology: From Middle French diocesain.
- Pertaining to a diocese.
“Diocesan bureaucracies were both symptom and cause of this.”
noun
Etymology: From Middle French diocesain.
- 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!’”