Prelate /(?; 48)/
Prel·ate
Prelate
n.
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A clergyman of a superior order, as an archbishop or a bishop, having authority over the lower clergy; a dignitary of the church.
Hear him but reason in divinity, . . . You would desire the king were made a prelate.
Prelate
v. i.
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To act as a prelate. [Obs.]
Right prelating is busy laboring, and not lording.