Crossword-Solution: BISHOPS
We have 21 clues for the answer “BISHOPS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Vatican personnel | 1 answer |
| Chess pieces known as elephants in Russia | 1 answer |
| Chess pieces or Newfoundland falls | 1 answer |
| Chess pieces that move only diagonally | 1 answer |
| Chessmen that move diagonally | 1 answer |
| Delegates to Vatican II. | 1 answer |
| Diagonal movers | 1 answer |
| Third-tallest pieces, at times | 1 answer |
| Men staying on one color | 1 answer |
| They begin next to royalty | 1 answer |
| Pieces that make diagonal moves | 1 answer |
| Prelates | 1 answer |
| Religious men who move diagonally? | 1 answer |
| They always proceed in a biased way | 1 answer |
| Some board members | 1 answer |
| Pieces on a board | 2 answers |
| Some chess pieces | 2 answers |
| Knights' neighbors | 2 answers |
| See people | 3 answers |
| Chess pieces | 6 answers |
| Chessman | 8 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EREAT
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with BISHOPS (5)
Every reader must recollect, that after the fall of the Catholic Church, and the Presbyterian Church Government had been established by law, the rank, and especially the wealth, of the Bishops, Abbots, Priors, and so forth, were no longer vested in ecclesiastics, but in lay impropriators of the church revenues, or, as the Scottish lawyers called them, titulars of the temporalities of the benefice, though having no claim to the spiritual character of their predecessors in office.
And the king would have had me lie there till I perished, that I might be forgotten utterly; but there were many of the king's knights who murmured at this, and would not forget me; so the king being constrained, had me brought forth to be judged by his bishops of sorcery for the beguiling of my lord.
This impression of indescribable oddness in Stephen’s touch culminated in speech when she saw him, at the taking of one of her bishops, push it aside with the taking man instead of lifting it as a preliminary to the move.
They could only be the sextons and vergers and such-like, who got up at night, and put on the robes of deans and bishops, and called each other grand names, as the foolish servants he had heard his father tell of call themselves lords and ladies, after their masters and mistresses.
They drink themselves--they are always drinking the health of somebody: ‘Gentlemen, the Regiment!’ The preachers drink, the bishops drink--” Again the guide touched the head of the young Tsar, who again lost consciousness.
Quotes with BISHOPS (3)
Christ is certainly distressed to see and to hear priests and bishops, who ought to be protecting the integrity of the teaching of the Gospel and of doctrine, multiply words and writings that weaken the rigor of the Gospel by their deliberately ambiguous, confused statements.
Many fervent Christians who are moved by the Passion and death of Christ on the Cross no longer have the strength to weep or to utter a cry of pain to the priests and bishops who make their appearance as entertainers and set themselves up as the main protagonists of the Eucharist. These believers tell us nevertheless: "We do not want to gather with men around a man! We want to see Jesus! Show him to us in the silence and humility of your prayer!
When they killed him, Mother wouldn't hold her peace, so they slit her throat. I was stupid then, being only nine, and I fought to save them both. But the thorns held me tight. I've learned to appreciate thorns since. The thorns taught me the game. They let me understand what all those grim and serious men who've fought the Hundred War have yet to learn. You can only win the game when you understand that it IS a game. Let a man play chess, and tell him that every pawn is his …
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Appears in: Boston Globe, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WSJ.
Used 26 times in crossword archives (1964–2025).