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bishop: (chess) a piece that can be moved diagonally over unoccupied squares of the same color; port wine mulled with oranges and cloves; 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

pope collapse: the head of the Roman Catholic Church; English poet and satirist (1688-1744)

curate collapse: a person authorized to conduct religious worship; "clergymen are usually called ministers in Protestant churches"

dean collapse: an administrator in charge of a division of a university or college; (Roman Catholic Church) the head of the College of Cardinals; a man who is the senior member of a group; "he is the dean of foreign correspondents"; United States film actor whose moody rebellious roles made him a cult figure (1931-1955)

vicar collapse: a Roman Catholic priest who acts for another higher-ranking clergyman; (Church of England) a clergyman appointed to act as priest of a parish; (Episcopal Church) a clergyman in charge of a chapel

penitentiary collapse: a correctional institution for those convicted of major crimes; used for punishment or reform of criminals or wrongdoers; "penitentiary institutions"

primate collapse: any placental mammal of the order Primates; has good eyesight and flexible hands and feet

patriarch collapse: a man who is older and higher in rank than yourself; any of the early biblical characters regarded as fathers of the human race; the male head of family or tribe; title for the heads of the Eastern Orthodox Churches (in Istanbul and Alexandria and Moscow and Jerusalem)

pastor collapse: only the rose-colored starlings; in some classifications considered a separate genus

castle collapse: interchanging the positions of the king and a rook; a large building formerly occupied by a ruler and fortified against attack; (chess) the piece that can move any number of unoccupied squares in a direction parallel to the sides of the chessboard; move the king two squares toward a rook and in the same move the rook to the square next past the king

canon collapse: a collection of books accepted as holy scripture especially the books of the Bible recognized by any Christian church as genuine and inspired; a complete list of saints that have been recognized by the Roman Catholic Church; a rule or especially body of rules or principles generally established as valid and fundamental in a field or art or philosophy; "the neoclassical canon"; "canons of polite society"; a contrapuntal piece of music in which a melody in one part is imitated exactly in other parts; a priest who is a member of a cathedral chapter

cardinal collapse: crested thick-billed North American finch having bright red plumage in the male; a variable color averaging a vivid red; (Roman Catholic Church) one of a group of more than 100 prominent bishops in the Sacred College who advise the Pope and elect new Popes; serving as an essential component; "a cardinal rule"; "the central cause of the problem"; "an example that was fundamental to the argument"; "computers are fundamental to modern industrial structure"; being or denoting a numerical quantity but not order; "cardinal numbers"

apostle collapse: (New Testament) one of the original 12 disciples chosen by Christ to preach his gospel; any important early teacher of Christianity or a Christian missionary to a people; an ardent early supporter of a cause or reform; "an apostle of revolution"

rook collapse: common gregarious Old World bird about the size and color of the American crow

deacon collapse: a cleric ranking just below a priest in Christian churches; one of the Holy Orders; a Protestant layman who assists the minister

teacher collapse: a personified abstraction that teaches; "books were his teachers"; "experience is a demanding teacher"; a person whose occupation is teaching

priest collapse: a clergyman in Christian churches who has the authority to perform or administer various religious rites; one of the Holy Orders; a person who performs religious duties and ceremonies in a non-Christian religion

pawn collapse: borrowing and leaving an article as security for repayment of the loan; (chess) the least powerful piece; moves only forward and captures only to the side; it can be promoted to a more powerful piece if it reaches the 8th rank; an article deposited as security; leave as a guarantee in return for money; "pawn your grandfather's gold watch"

knight collapse: a chessman shaped to resemble the head of a horse; can move two squares horizontally and one vertically (or vice versa); originally a person of noble birth trained to arms and chivalry; today in Great Britain a person honored by the sovereign for personal merit; raise (someone) to knighthood; "The Beatles were knighted"

king collapse: (chess) the weakest but the most important piece; one of the four playing cards in a deck bearing the picture of a king; a checker that has been moved to the opponent's first row where it is promoted to a piece that is free to move either forward or backward; a male sovereign; ruler of a kingdom; a competitor who holds a preeminent position; United States charismatic civil rights leader and Baptist minister who campaigned against the segregation of Blacks (1929-1968); United States guitar player and singer of the blues (born in 1925); United States woman tennis player (born in 1943); preeminence in a particular category or group or field; "the lion is the king of beasts"

queen collapse: the only fertile female in a colony of social insects such as bees and ants and termites; its function is to lay eggs; an especially large mole rat and the only member of a colony of naked mole rats to bear offspring which are sired by only a few males; (chess) the most powerful piece; one of four face cards in a deck bearing a picture of a queen; a female sovereign ruler; the wife or widow of a king; something personified as a woman who is considered the best or most important of her kind; "Paris is the queen of cities"; "the queen of ocean liners"; become a queen; "her pawn queened"; promote to a queen, as of a pawn in chess

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