Prelate

Quick meaning: Prelate is a noun meaning A clergyman of high rank and authority, having jurisdiction over an area or a group of people; normally a bishop.

Meaning

A clergyman of high rank and authority, having jurisdiction over an area or a group of people; normally a bishop.

More Meanings

1. (intransitive), (obsolete) To act as a prelate.

Example Sentences

Hear him but reason in divinity, […] / You would desire the king were made a prelate.

18 January 1549, Hugh Latimer, Sermon of the Plough Right prelating is busy labouring, and not lording.

Inthronization, in ancient times, immediately succeeded the rite of consecration; the new bishop being honourably placed in his episcopal chair by the prelates assembled for his consecration.

’Tis acknowledg’d on all hands, ſays that learned Prelate, that the Authority, either of the Scripture or of Tradition, is founded merely on the Teſtimony of the Apoſtles, who were Eye-witneſſes to thoſe Miracles of our Saviour, by which he prov’d his divine Miſſion.

Word Forms

• prelates
• prelating
• prelated

Synonyms for prelate

Depending on context, synonyms include hierarch, archpriest, primate.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include archpriest, hierarch, primate, prelateship, archprelate, prelateity.

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