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Webster 1913 Edition

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Of or pertaining to prelates or prelacy;

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prelatical

authority

Macaulay.

prelatical ‎(comparative more prelatical, superlative most prelatical)

Pertaining to a prelate; prelatial.
(chiefly derogatory) Adhering to prelates; episcopal.
- 1644, John Milton, Aeropagitica:
  And though I knew that England then was groaning loudest under the Prelaticall yoak, neverthelesse I took it as a pledge of future happines, that other Nations were so perswaded of her liberty.