Biretta vs. Bishop

The biretta (Latin: biretum, birretum) is a square cap with three or four peaks or horns, sometimes surmounted by a tuft. Traditionally the three-peaked biretta is worn by Catholic clergy and some Anglican and Lutheran clergy.

A bishop is an ordained or appointed member in a religious institution, who is generally entrusted with a position of authority and oversight. The title is most often used in Christian churches, but is also used in some Japanese Buddhist institutions, and by the Japanese new religion Tenrikyo.

A stiff square cap with three or four ridges across the crown. Birettas are worn especially by Roman Catholic clergy and are black for priests, purple for bishops, and red for cardinals.

A high-ranking Christian cleric, in modern churches usually in charge of a diocese and in some churches regarded as having received the highest ordination in unbroken succession from the apostles.

A square cap, originally with four ridges across the top, surmounted by a tuft, worn by Roman Catholic clergy (and by some in the Anglican Church). A three-sided biretta is worn by Roman Catholic clergy for liturgical celebrations.

Abbr. B(Games) A usually miter-shaped chess piece that can move diagonally across any number of unoccupied spaces.

Same as Berretta.

Mulled port spiced with oranges, sugar, and cloves.

a stiff cap with ridges across the crown; worn by Roman Catholic clergy

(Christianity) An overseer of congregations: either any such overseer, generally speaking, or (in Eastern Orthodoxy, Catholicism, Anglicanism, etc.) an official in the church hierarchy (actively or nominally) governing a diocese, supervising the church's priests, deacons, and property in its territory.

A similar official or chief priest in another religion.

(obsolete) The holder of the Greek or Roman position of episcopus, supervisor over the public dole of grain, etc.

(obsolete) Any watchman, inspector, or overlooker.

A chief of the Festival of Fools or St. Nicholas Day.

(chess) The chess piece denoted ♗ or ♝ which moves along diagonal lines and developed from the shatranj alfil ("elephant") and was originally known as the aufil or archer in English.

Any of various African birds of the genus Euplectes; a kind of weaverbird closely related to the widowbirds.

(dialectal) A ladybug or ladybird, beetles of the family Coccinellidae.

A flowering plant of the genus Bifora.

A sweet drink made from wine, usually with oranges, lemons, and sugar; mulled and spiced port.

A bustle.

A children's smock or pinafore.

(Christianity) To act as a bishop, to perform the duties of a bishop, especially to confirm another's membership in the church.

To confirm (in its other senses).

(Christianity) To make a bishop.

To provide with bishops.

To permit food (especially milk) to burn while cooking (from bishops' role in the inquisition or as mentioned in the quotation below, of horses).

To make a horse seem younger, particularly by manipulation of its teeth.

To murder by drowning.

A spiritual overseer, superintendent, or director.

In the Roman Catholic, Greek, and Anglican or Protestant Episcopal churches, one ordained to the highest order of the ministry, superior to the priesthood, and generally claiming to be a successor of the Apostles. The bishop is usually the spiritual head or ruler of a diocese, bishopric, or see.

In the Methodist Episcopal and some other churches, one of the highest church officers or superintendents.

A piece used in the game of chess, bearing a representation of a bishop's miter; - formerly called archer.

A beverage, being a mixture of wine, oranges or lemons, and sugar.

An old name for a woman's bustle.

To admit into the church by confirmation; to confirm; hence, to receive formally to favor.

To make seem younger, by operating on the teeth; as, to bishop an old horse or his teeth.

a clergyman having spiritual and administrative authority; appointed in Christian churches to oversee priests or ministers; considered in some churches to be successors of the twelve apostles of Christ

port wine mulled with oranges and cloves

(chess) a piece that can be moved diagonally over unoccupied squares of the same color