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Sarum use

A liturgy or use put forth about 1087 by St Osmund bishop of Sarum based on Anglo Saxon and Norman customs

Sententiary

One who read lectures or commented on the Sentences of Peter Lombard Bishop of Paris 1159 1160 a school divine

abbathia, Lat.], the government of a religious house and the revenues thereof, subject to an abbot, as a bishopric is to a bishop, Cowel. The rights and privileges of an abbot. Is an abbato's jurisdiction or term

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Episcopicide

The killing of a bishop

Enthronize

To place on a throne hence to induct into office as a bishop

Admittendo clerico

of execution upon a right of presentation to a benefice being recovered in quare impedit, addressed to the bishop or his metropolitan, requiring him to admit and institute the clerk or presentee of the plaintiff, Reg. Brev.