Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Prelacy; episcopacy.
- noun A prelatical office.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete Prelacy.
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- noun now historical The system of ecclesiastic governance by
prelates orbishops ;episcopacy ,prelacy .
Etymologies
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Examples
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This is not, ye Covenants and Protestations that we have made! this is not to put down prelaty; this is but to chop an episcopacy; this is but to translate the Palace Metropolitan from one kind of dominion into another; this is but an old canonical sleight of commuting our penance.
Areopagitica 2007
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That those evils of prelaty, 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 cure too, a mystical pluralist.
Areopagitica 2007
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That those evils of prelaty, 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 cure too, a mystical pluralist.
Areopagitica 2007
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This is not, ye Covenants and Protestations that we have made! this is not to put down prelaty; this is but to chop an episcopacy; this is but to translate the Palace Metropolitan from one kind of dominion into another; this is but an old canonical sleight of commuting our penance.
Areopagitica 2007
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That those evils of prelaty, 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 cure too, a mystical pluralist.
Areopagitica A speech for the Liberty of Unlicensed Printing to the Parliament of England John Milton 1641
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This is not, ye Covenants and Protestations that we have made! this is not to put down prelaty; this is but to chop an episcopacy; this is but to translate the Palace Metropolitan from one kind of dominion into another; this is but an old canonical sleight of commuting our penance.
Areopagitica A speech for the Liberty of Unlicensed Printing to the Parliament of England John Milton 1641
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