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English
Noun
diœcese (plural diœceses)
- Archaic form of diocese.
French
Noun
diœcese m (plural diœceses)
- Obsolete form of diocèse.
1670, Paul Hay du Chastelet, Traité de la Politique de France, page 80:Le quartriéme moyen eſt d’obliger les Religionnaires à reſtablir les anciennes chapelles de leurs maiſons, qu’ils ont demolies ou profanées, ce qui ſe doit pourſuivre à la diligence de chacun Eveſque dans ſon diœceſe ; il n’en faudra pas faire une affaire commune à tous les Huguenots, mais à pluſieurs particuliers.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)