{ } a. (Biol.) Having the sexes in two separate individuals; -- applied to plants in which the female flowers occur on one individual and the male flowers on another of the same species, and to animals in which the ovum is produced by one individual and the sperm cell by another; -- opposed to monœcious. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ LL. dioecesanus: cf. F. diocésain. ] Of or pertaining to a diocese; as, diocesan missions. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A bishop, viewed in relation to his diocese; as, the diocesan of New York. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. pl. The clergy or the people of a diocese. Strype. [ 1913 Webster ]