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/ɪpˌɪskəpˈeɪliən/ /ɪpˌɪskəpˈeɪljən/ Listen

Episcopalian

noun

A member of the Episcopal church.

adjective

Of or pertaining to or characteristic of the Episcopal church. Synonym: Episcopal. "Married by an Episcopalian minister"

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"Episcopalian" Quotes from Famous Books

... him—at least so both of them say, and there were no others in all the years. He shaved every day, wore a frock-coat and a high hat to church—where for ten years he was the only male member of the Episcopalian flock—and Mrs. Conklin told the women that altogether he was a credit to his sex and his family—a remark which was passed about ribaldly in town for a dozen years, though Mortimer Conklin never knew that he was ...

— In Our Town • William Allen White

... bidding; and thus began the long controversy between Presbyterianism and Episcopacy. The struggle of Protestantism with Romanism had well-nigh disappeared; the fight was now between the Presbyterian and the Episcopalian. ...

— Sketches of the Covenanters • J. C. McFeeters

... told her of the climb to Crestcliffe Inn and its purpose. "Ardea's a dear girl, as the children of this world go, Thomas; she's been right loving and kind to me since we've come to be such close neighbors. But"—with a note of solemn warning in her voice—"you must never forget that she's an Episcopalian, a lost soul, dead in forms and ceremonies and trespasses and sins." So his mother scoffed at Ardea's faith; and Ardea—no, she did not scoff, her contempt was too generous for that; but it was there, just the same. And the Methodists ...

— The Quickening • Francis Lynde

... became a clergyman of the Episcopalian Church, and served as a chaplain in the Spanish-American war, then, at an age when most men have long retired from the most peaceful occupations, he was sent out by President Wilson to the permanent battlefield of Palestine. The brilliant services ...

— The New Jerusalem • G. K. Chesterton

... one Episcopalian, one Roman Catholic, one Methodist mission, one Congregational mission, one nunnery school, Sisters of St. Ann's, one private educational institute (by the author) for both sexes, and ...

— Some Reminiscences of old Victoria • Edgar Fawcett

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