Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Prelacy; episcopacy.
- noun The belief in and advocacy of episcopacy: usually in an invidious sense.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Prelacy; episcopacy.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun
prelacy ;episcopacy
Etymologies
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prelate + -ism
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Examples
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Whitehall, the Dagon of prelatism is once more enthroned throughout the land, the saints are dispersed and forsaken, and he himself, who had as he thought so signally borne his witness for God, sits blind and sad in his lonely house, "to visitants a gaze Or pitied object," with no hope left of high service to his country and no prospect but that of a
Milton John Cann Bailey 1897
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