prelatist

a renewal of what Mr. Elmwood called the prelatist assembly impossible, and with a good deal of sorrow he announced the fact on the next market day to Mr.. Lightfoot.

Under the Storm Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862

His prejudices, indeed, were easily enlisted on her side, and it was no difficult matter to make him regard with horror the prospect of a union betwixt the daughter of a God-fearing, professing, and Presbyterian family of distinction and the heir of a bloodthirsty prelatist and persecutor, the hands of whose fathers had been dyed to the wrists in the blood of

The Bride of Lammermoor 2008

Even that stout anti-prelatist, the American consul, who has left his house and fortune in America in order to witness the coming of the

Notes of a Journey From Cornhill to Grand Cairo 2004

He is a prelatist, who has sought the camp under the disguise of an

Old Mortality 2004

He was knighted at Lonon court, wi’ the King’s ain sword; and being a redhot prelatist, he came down here, rampauging like a lion, with commissions of lieutenancy (and of lunacy, for what I ken), to put down a’ the Whigs and Covenanters in the country.

Wandering Willie’s Tale 1921

He was knighted at Lonon Court, wi’ the king’s ain sword; and being a red-hot prelatist, he came down here, rampauging like a lion, with commissions of lieutenancy (and of lunacy, for what I ken), to put down a’ the Whigs and Covenanters in the country.

Wandering Willie’s Tale 1907

I am sure if ye were sae disposed as to take amends on him, naebody could say it was wrang, for your father's blood is beneath his nails --- and besides, there's naebody else left that was concerned to take amends upon, and he's a prelatist and a jacobite into the bargain --- I can tell ye the country folk look for something atween ye. ''

The Black Dwarf 1898

He was knighted at Lonon Court, wi 'the king's ain sword; and being a red-hot prelatist, he came down here, rampauging like a lion, with commission of lieutenancy (and of lunacy, for what I ken), to put down a' the Whigs and Covenanters in the country.

Stories by English Authors: Scotland (Selected by Scribners) Various 1878

` ` Tobit! '' exclaimed Gilfillan, with great heat; ` ` Tobit and his dog baith are altogether heathenish and apocryphal, and none but a prelatist or a papist would draw them into question.

The Waverley 1877

Happy were those who were next the door; and many were the disasters that befell hats, bands, cuffs, and wigs, before they could get out of the church, where they left the obstinate prelatist to settle matters with the witch and her admirer, at his own peril or pleasure. ''

The Waverley 1877