[f. prec.] trans. To make or call archbishop. In phr. To archbishop it: to act as archbishop.

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1692.  Washington, trans. Milton’s Def. Pop., viii. (1851), 191. [They] pretended to Archbishop it by Divine Providence.

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1836.  Blackw. Mag., XXXVI. 301. To archbishop him was by right; for he was already arch-hypocrite … and arch-rogue.

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