Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Prelacy.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun obsolete Prelaty; prelacy.

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  • noun obsolete prelacy

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Examples

  • That those evils of prelatry, which before from five or six and twenty sees were distributively charged upon the whole people, will now light wholly upon learning, is not obscure to us: whenas now the pastor of a small unlearned parish on the sudden shall be exalted archbishop over a large diocese of books, and yet not remove, but keep his other curé, too, a mystical pluralist.

    Plea for the Liberty of Unlicensed Printing 1906

  • Yet that prelatry was now scourging the nonconformists with scorpions instead of with whips, with its Act of Uniformity, its Conventicle

    Milton Mark Pattison 1848

  • Milton had postponed his poem, in 1641, till "the land had once enfranchished herself from this impertinent yoke of prelatry, under whose inquisitorious and tyrannical duncery no free and splendid wit can flourish."

    Milton Mark Pattison 1848

  • a hint of discontent with the prelatry, once intolerable to him.

    Milton Mark Pattison 1848

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