The Devil's Dictionary: Archbishop

Updated May 14, 2020 | Infoplease Staff
by Ambrose Bierce
APRIL FOOL
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ARCHBISHOP

-n.

An ecclesiastical dignitary one point holier than a bishop.

If I were a jolly archbishop,
On Fridays I'd eat all the fish up —
Salmon and flounders and smelts;
On other days everything else.

- Jodo Rem

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