diocesan
UK /dʌɪˈɒsɪsən/ US /daɪˈɑsɪsən/
noun 2adj 1
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1DIOCESAN + NOUN
bureaucracies
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adj
1
Pertaining to a diocese.
Diocesan bureaucracies were both symptom and cause of this.
noun
1
The bishop of a diocese.
2
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!’
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Diocesan bureaucracies were both symptom and cause of this.
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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 stop
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