Prelaty

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  • n. The system of ecclesiastic governance by prelates or bishops; episcopacy, prelacy.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. Prelacy.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. Prelacy; episcopacy.
  • n. A prelatical office.
  • Word Usage
    "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."
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    prelacy