[see -RIC; cf. bishopric.] a. The see or jurisdiction. b. the rank or office, of an archbishop.

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994.  O. E. Chron. Feng Ælfric … to ðam arcebiscoprice.

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1297.  R. Glouc., 417. Þe kyng … þulke erchebyssopryche Of Canterbury adde in hys hond.

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c. 1425.  Wyntoun, Cron., VII. viii. 55. Ðat had þe Archebyschapryk Of Yhork.

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1613.  Shaks., Hen. VIII., II. i. 164. For not bestowing on him … The Archbishopricke of Toledo.

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1796.  Morse, Amer. Un. Geog., II. 442. Cagliari has an university, an archbishopric.

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1849.  Macaulay, Hist. Eng., II. 438. The archbishopric [of Cologne] became vacant.

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