a. [UN-1 7.]
1. Not controlled by bishops; not episcopalian in character or government.
1659. Gauden, Tears Ch., * * 2. He never set up any soveraign and unepiscopal Presbytery as an Idol or Moloch.
1863. A. Blomfield, Mem. Bp. Blomfield, I. xi. 298. The High-Church party … looked with dislike … upon any display of friendly feeling towards an un-episcopal Church.
2. Not pertaining to or befitting a bishop.
a. 1661. Fuller, Worthies, Wilts., III. (1662), 150. If any say, this was an un-episcopal act; know, he did it not as Bishop, but as Lord Treasurer.
1716. M. Davies, Athen. Brit., III. 34. They could not have pleas’d the Dissenters … better, than by such Un-episcopal Ravings.
1889. Gretton, Memory’s Harkb., 55. The sayings and doings of his early unepiscopal days were remembered.
1897. J. W. Clark, Barnwell, Introd. 20. The Bishop lost his temper, and used very unepiscopal language.
Hence Unepiscopally adv.
1886. Manch. Exam., 6 Jan., 3/1. The unepiscopally explicit declaration.
