Bishop vs. Cope: What's the Difference?

Bishop and Cope Definitions
Bishop
A high-ranking Christian cleric, in modern churches usually in charge of a diocese and in some churches regarded as having received the highest ordination in unbroken succession from the apostles.
Cope
To contend or strive, especially on even terms or with success
Coping with child-rearing and a full-time job.
Bishop
Abbr. B(Games) A usually miter-shaped chess piece that can move diagonally across any number of unoccupied spaces.
Cope
To contend with difficulties and act to overcome them
"Facing unprecedented problems, the Federal Reserve of the early 1930s couldn't cope" (Robert J. Samuelson).
Bishop
Mulled port spiced with oranges, sugar, and cloves.
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Cope
To cover or dress in a cope.
Bishop
(Christianity) An overseer of congregations: either any such overseer, generally speaking, or (in Eastern Orthodoxy, Catholicism, Anglicanism, etc.) an official in the church hierarchy (actively or nominally) governing a diocese, supervising the church's priests, deacons, and property in its territory.
Cope
To provide with coping
Cope a wall.
Bishop
A similar official or chief priest in another religion.
Cope
A long ecclesiastical vestment worn over an alb or surplice.
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Bishop
(obsolete) The holder of the Greek or Roman position of episcopus, supervisor over the public dole of grain, etc.
Cope
A covering resembling a cloak or mantle.
Bishop
(obsolete) Any watchman, inspector, or overlooker.
Cope
A coping.
Bishop
A chief of the Festival of Fools or St. Nicholas Day.
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Cope
(intransitive) To deal effectively with something, especially if difficult.
I thought I would never be able to cope with life after the amputation, but I have learned how to be happy again.
Bishop
(chess) The chess piece denoted ♗ or ♝ which moves along diagonal lines and developed from the shatranj alfil ("elephant") and was originally known as the aufil or archer in English.
Cope
To cut and form a mitred joint in wood or metal.
Bishop
Any of various African birds of the genus Euplectes; a kind of weaverbird closely related to the widowbirds.
Cope
(falconry) To clip the beak or talons of a bird.
Bishop
(dialectal) A ladybug or ladybird, beetles of the family Coccinellidae.
Cope
(transitive) To cover (a joint or structure) with coping.
Bishop
A flowering plant of the genus Bifora.
Cope
(intransitive) To form a cope or arch; to arch or bend; to bow.
Bishop
A sweet drink made from wine, usually with oranges, lemons, and sugar; mulled and spiced port.
Cope
(obsolete) To bargain for; to buy.
Bishop
A bustle.
Cope
(obsolete) To exchange or barter.
Bishop
A children's smock or pinafore.
Cope
(obsolete) To make return for; to requite; to repay.
Bishop
(Christianity) To act as a bishop, to perform the duties of a bishop, especially to confirm another's membership in the church.
Cope
(obsolete) To match oneself against; to meet; to encounter.
Bishop
To confirm (in its other senses).
Cope
(obsolete) To encounter; to meet; to have to do with.
Bishop
(Christianity) To make a bishop.
Cope
To tie or sew up the mouth of a ferret used for hunting rabbits.
Bishop
To provide with bishops.
Cope
To silence or prevent from speaking.
Bishop
To permit food (especially milk) to burn while cooking (from bishops' role in the inquisition or as mentioned in the quotation below, of horses).
Cope
(slang) A coping mechanism or self-delusion one clings to in order to endure the hopelessness or despair of existence.
Bishop
To make a horse seem younger, particularly by manipulation of its teeth.
Cope
A long, loose cloak worn by a priest, deacon, or bishop when presiding over a ceremony other than the Mass.
Bishop
To murder by drowning.
Cope
Any covering such as a canopy or a mantle.
Bishop
A spiritual overseer, superintendent, or director.
Ye were as sheep going astray; but are now returned unto the Shepherd and Bishop of your souls.
It is a fact now generally recognized by theologians of all shades of opinion, that in the language of the New Testament the same officer in the church is called indifferently "bishop" ( ) and "elder" or "presbyter."
Cope
(literary) The vault or canopy of the skies, heavens etc.
Bishop
In the Roman Catholic, Greek, and Anglican or Protestant Episcopal churches, one ordained to the highest order of the ministry, superior to the priesthood, and generally claiming to be a successor of the Apostles. The bishop is usually the spiritual head or ruler of a diocese, bishopric, or see.
Cope
(construction) A covering piece on top of a wall exposed to the weather, usually made of metal, masonry, or stone, and sloped to carry off water.
Bishop
In the Methodist Episcopal and some other churches, one of the highest church officers or superintendents.
Cope
(foundry) The top part of a sand casting mold.
Bishop
A piece used in the game of chess, bearing a representation of a bishop's miter; - formerly called archer.
Cope
An ancient tribute due to the lord of the soil, out of the lead mines in Derbyshire, England.
Bishop
A beverage, being a mixture of wine, oranges or lemons, and sugar.
Cope
A covering for the head.
Bishop
An old name for a woman's bustle.
If, by her bishop, or her "grace" alone,A genuine lady, or a church, is known.
Cope
Anything regarded as extended over the head, as the arch or concave of the sky, the roof of a house, the arch over a door.
Bishop
To admit into the church by confirmation; to confirm; hence, to receive formally to favor.
Cope
An ecclesiastical vestment or cloak, semicircular in form, reaching from the shoulders nearly to the feet, and open in front except at the top, where it is united by a band or clasp. It is worn in processions and on some other occasions.
A hundred and sixty priests all in their copes.
Bishop
To make seem younger, by operating on the teeth; as, to bishop an old horse or his teeth.
Cope
An ancient tribute due to the lord of the soil, out of the lead mines in Derbyshire, England.
Bishop
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
Cope
The top part of a flask or mold; the outer part of a loam mold.
Bishop
Port wine mulled with oranges and cloves
Cope
To form a cope or arch; to bend or arch; to bow.
Some bending down and coping toward the earth.
Bishop
(chess) a piece that can be moved diagonally over unoccupied squares of the same color
Cope
To pare the beak or talons of (a hawk).
Cope
To exchange or barter.
Cope
To encounter; to meet; to have to do with.
Horatio, thou art e'en as just a manAs e'er my conversation coped withal.
Cope
To enter into or maintain a hostile contest; to struggle; to combat; especially, to strive or contend on equal terms or with success; to match; to equal; - usually followed by with.
Host coped with host, dire was the din of war.
Their generals have not been able to cope with the troops of Athens.
Cope
To bargain for; to buy.
Cope
To make return for; to requite; to repay.
Three thousand ducats due unto the Jew,We freely cope your courteous pains withal.
Cope
To match one's self against; to meet; to encounter.
I love to cope him in these sullen fits.
They say he yesterday coped Hector in the battle, and struck him down.
Cope
Brick that is laid sideways at the top of a wall
Cope
Come to terms or deal successfully with;
We got by on just a gallon of gas
They made do on half a loaf of bread every day