Definition of Prelatic

1. a. Of or pertaining to prelates or prelacy; as, prelatical authority.

Definition of Prelatic

1. Adjective. (alternative form of prelatical) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Prelatic

1. prelate [adj] - See also: prelate

Lexicographical Neighbors of Prelatic

prelabour
prelacies
prelacy
prelal
prelanding
prelapsarian
prelate
prelated
prelateity
prelates
prelateship
prelateships
prelatess
prelatesses
prelatial
prelatic (current term)
prelatical
prelatically
prelaties
prelating
prelation
prelations
prelatism
prelatisms
prelatist
prelatists
prelatize
prelatized
prelatizes
prelatizing

Literary usage of Prelatic

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Growth of British Policy: An Historical Essay by John Robert Seeley (1895)
"A Catholic Queen and a prelatic King were intolerable to us in that phase of our religious history; nor was this surprising when we consider how much the ..."

2. The Growth of British Policy: An Historical Essay by John Robert Seeley (1895)
"A Catholic Queen and a prelatic King were intolerable to us in that phase of our religious history; nor was this surprising when we consider how much the ..."

3. History of the Westminster Assembly of Divines by William Maxwell Hetherington, Thomas M'Crie (1843)
"Had not the spirit of liberty, civil and religious, been at that time vigilant and strong, these prelatic usurpations must have soon reduced England to a ..."

4. The Correspondence of the Rev. Robert Wodrow by Robert Wodrow (1842)
"REMARKS ON " JET-BLACK prelatic CALUMNY. ... sheets of your " Jet-Black prelatic Calumny. ..."

5. The Puritans and Their Principles by Edwin Hall (1847)
"Natural tendency of prelatic principles to corruption and persecution. Their fruit on a broad scale, and for a thousand years. Original idea of " A Church ..."

6. Complete Works of Rev. Thomas Smyth, D. D. by Thomas Smyth (1908)
"... for the sake of any prelatic haughty assumptions. Lord Claren- honors or distinction, or from any don informs us, that "Lord Scuda- other motive, ..."

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