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• In the Byzantine Empire, a governor of a distant province.

• In the Eastern Christian Churches, the deputy of a patriarch, or a bishop who holds authority over other bishops without being a patriarch.

• In these same churches, a bishop appointed over a group of the faithful not yet large enough or organized enough to constitute an eparchy or diocese.

• a bishop in one of several Eastern Orthodox Churches in North America

• a bishop in eastern Christendom who holds a place below a patriarch but above a metropolitan

• a viceroy who governed a large province in the Roman Empire

• a tax that is measured by the amount of business done (not on property or income from real estate)

• remove by erasing or crossing out or as if by drawing a line

• levy an excise tax on

• remove by cutting

• of or pertaining to a number system having 16 as its base

• an evil spell

• cast a spell over someone or something; put a hex on someone or something

• large genus of plants found in damp woodlands and bogs and ditches or at water margins: sedges

• the chief executive department of the United States government

• being deficient in moisture