Definitions for: Prelate


[n] a senior clergyman



Webster (1913) Definition: Prel"ate (?; 48), n. [F. pr['e]lat, LL. praelatus, fr.
L. praelatus, used as p. p. of praeferre to prefer, but from
a different root. See Elate.]
A clergyman of a superior order, as an archbishop or a
bishop, having authority over the lower clergy; a dignitary
of the church.

Note: This word and the words derived from it are often used
invidiously, in English ecclesiastical history, by
dissenters, respecting the Established Church system.

Hear him but reason in divinity, . . . You would
desire the king were made a prelate. --Shak.


Prel"ate, v. i.
To act as a prelate. [Obs.]

Right prelating is busy laboring, and not lording.
--Latimer.

Synonyms: archpriest, hierarch, high priest, primate

See Also: Armand Jean du Plessis, Cardinal Newman, Cardinal Richelieu, clergyman, Desmond Tutu, Duc de Richelieu, Francisco Jimenez de Cisneros, Inge, James Usher, James Ussher, Jimenez de Cisneros, John Henry Newman, man of the cloth, Newman, reverend, Richelieu, Stefan Wyszynski, the Gloomy Dean, Tutu, Usher, Ussher, William of Wykeham, William Ralph Inge, Wykeham, Wyszynski

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