Prelate
['prelət] or ['prɛlət]
Definition
(n.) A clergyman of a superior order, as an archbishop or a bishop, having authority over the lower clergy; a dignitary of the church.
(v. i.) To act as a prelate.
Typist: Susan
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Bishop.
Typist: Virginia
Definition
n. the holder of one of those higher dignities in the church to which of their own right is attached a proper jurisdiction not derived by delegation from any superior official: a church dignitary.—ns. Prel′acy the office of a prelate: the order of bishops or the bishops collectively: church government by prelates: episcopacy; Prel′ateship.—adjs. Prelat′ic -al pertaining to prelates or prelacy.—adv. Prelat′ically.—v.t. and v.i. Prel′atise to make or to become prelatical.—ns. Prel′atism Prel′ature prelacy: the time during which a prelate exercises authority; Prel′atist an upholder of prelacy.
Inputed by Cole
Unserious Contents or Definition
n. A church officer having a superior degree of holiness and a fat preferment. One of Heaven's aristocracy. A gentleman of God.
Checker: Rene
Examples
- May I so find mercy in your eyes, said the Jew, as I know not one word which the reverend prelate spake to me all this fearful night. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- Bartholomew Irons--to the disappointment of the irregular prelate. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- For, instead of a long train with royal diadems, I saw in one family two fiddlers, three spruce courtiers, and an Italian prelate. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- We shall rouse against you princes and prelates, who, alas! H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
Typist: Oliver