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Definition of Lords spiritual
1. Noun. The clergy in France and the heads of the church in Britain.
Generic synonyms: Estate, Estate Of The Realm, The Three Estates
Geographical relationships: Britain, Great Britain, U.k., Uk, United Kingdom, United Kingdom Of Great Britain And Northern Ireland, France, French Republic
Lexicographical Neighbors of Lords Spiritual
Literary usage of Lords spiritual
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Commentaries on the Laws of England by William Blackstone, William Carey Jones (1915)
"But though these lords spiritual are in the eye of the law a distinct estate from
the lords temporal, and are so distinguished in most of our acts of ..."
2. The Bibliographer's Manual of English Literature: Containing an Account of by William Thomas Lowndes (1861)
"A true List of the lords spiritual and the Papers of each Session,
commencing *?mP°rs!| "s "ls° of the knights, citizens, in 1853 ° Parliament of Great ..."
3. A Constitutional History of the House of Lords by Luke Owen Pike (1894)
"All the lords spiritual of Ireland were to have rank and precedence immediately
after the lords spiritual of the same rank and degree of Great Britain, ..."
4. The Constitutional History of England Since the Accession of George the by Thomas Erskine May (1878)
"Before the suppression of the monasteries by Henry VIII., in 1539, when the abbots
and priors sat with the bishops, the lords spiritual actually exceeded ..."
5. The Constitutional History of England Since the Accession of George the by Thomas Erskine May (1871)
"Before the suppression of the monasteries by Henry VIII., in 1539, when the abbots
and priors sat with the bishops, the lords spiritual actually exceeded ..."
6. The Constitutional History of England Since the Accession of George the by Thomas Erskine May (1906)
"... tions which they bear to the lords spiritual, as compared with former times.
Before the suppression of the monasteries by Henry VIII., in 1539, ..."
7. The Origin and Growth of the English Constitution: An Historical Treatise by Hannis Taylor (1898)
"The lords spiritual. inquiry. The writer last named cautiously concludes that
the definitions of law recognize rather than create the character of barony; ..."
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