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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

;

pl.

Prelacies

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[LL.

praelatia

. See

; cf.

The office or dignity of a prelate; church government by prelates.

Prelacies may be termed the greater benefices.

Ayliffe.

The order of prelates, taken collectively; the body of ecclesiastical dignitaries.

“Divers of the reverend prelacy, and other most judicious men.”

Hooker.

Noun.

[from prelate.] The office or dignity of a prelate.

Prelacies may be termed the greater benefices.

Episcopacy; the order of bishops.

How many are there that call themselves protestants, who put prelacy and popery together as terms convertible?

Bishops, collectively.

Divers of the reverend prelacy.