Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Same as prelatic.

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  • adjective Pertaining to a prelate; prelatial.
  • adjective Adhering to prelates; episcopal.

Etymologies

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From prelate +‎ -ical.

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Examples

  • Subordination prelatical, which is of one or more parishes to the prelate and his cathedral, is denied; all particular churches being collateral, and of the same authority.

    The Divine Right of Church Government by Sundry Ministers Of Christ Within The City Of London

  • You remember that roughly it was this: that any corporate reunion can only come in the acceptance of the historical Episcopate; but that the conception and use of Episcopacy in the Church has been a limited one: there are many ways of regarding and using bishops besides the monarchical or "prelatical" way exemplified by the Church of England.

    The War and Unity Being Lectures Delivered At The Local Lectures Summer Meeting Of The University Of Cambridge, 1918 1911

  • Covenanters or "wild Whigs" of the Western shires had formally renounced their allegiance to a "prelatical" king.

    History of the English People, Volume VII (of 8) The Revolution, 1683-1760; Modern England, 1760-1767 John Richard Green 1860

  • "prelatical" system triumphed and was firmly maintained by the sovereign.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss 1840-1916 1913

  • Now committed to voluminous and arduous prose writing, he keeps his biographers busy with attacks on prelatical episcopy and tracts on church government, but he did not forget his ambition for poetry and fame; hence his autobiographical digression in The Reason of Church-government (1642), which gives an account of his youthful travels and studies, and asserts his claim to be a poet of achievement, continuing promise, and ultimate fame.

    Heroic Milton: Happy Birthday Kermode, Frank 2009

  • Lucy the fanaticism of some of her own communion, while she intimated, rather than expressed, horror at the latitudinarian principles which she had been taught to think connected with the prelatical form of church government.

    The Bride of Lammermoor 2008

  • A little generous prudence, a little forbearance of one another, and some grain of charity might win all these diligences to join, and unite in one general and brotherly search after truth; could we but forgo this prelatical tradition of crowding free consciences and

    Areopagitica 2007

  • England then was groaning loudest under the prelatical yoke, nevertheless I took it as a pledge of future happiness, that other nations were so persuaded of her liberty.

    Areopagitica 2007

  • A little generous prudence, a little forbearance of one another, and some grain of charity might win all these diligences to join, and unite in one general and brotherly search after truth; could we but forgo this prelatical tradition of crowding free consciences and

    Areopagitica 2007

  • England then was groaning loudest under the prelatical yoke, nevertheless I took it as a pledge of future happiness, that other nations were so persuaded of her liberty.

    Areopagitica 2007

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