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preˈlatical, a. (n.)
[f. as prec. + -al1.]
A. adj.
1. = prelatic 1.
1634Canne Necess. Separ. (1849) 235 Their prelatical or episcopal office or ministry, is not the proper ministry of any of our church assemblies. 1660Wood Life Dec. (O.H.S.) I. 355 The most exact prelaticall garb that might be. a1661Fuller Worthies (1662) i. 58 Of the Prelatical Clergy, we have Francis Godwin a Bishop, the Son of a Bishop, and Doctor John King Son to his Reverend Father the Bishop of London. 1748Smollett Rod. Rand. ix, He rose and moved, with prelatical dignity, to the door. 1877J. Ll. Davies in Dict. Chr. Biog. I. 96 Gibbon..represents the behaviour of Ambrose as marked by a prelatical pomposity.
2. Governed by or adhering to prelates or prelacy; a hostile term for episcopal, episcopalian.
1641R. Bernard (title) A Short View of the Prælaticall Church of England. 1641Milton (title) Of Prelatical Episcopacy. 1651Baxter Inf. Bapt. 272 That the Papists and Prelaticall party do..urge Infant Baptism to be a tradition, is no wonder. 1733Neal Hist. Purit. III. 415 They insisted peremptorily on the establishment of the Presbyterian church government upon the ruins of the Prelatical. 1849Macaulay Hist. Eng. ii. I. 184 The government resolved to set up a prelatical church in Scotland.
†B. n. in pl. Things pertaining to prelates or prelacy. Obs.
1643W. Greenhill Axe at Root 13 It's feared we stick too much to Mosaicalls, Prelaticalls, and Traditionalls.
Hence preˈlatically adv., in a prelatic or prelatical way; as a prelate; with reference to prelacy; preˈlaticalness (Bailey vol. II, 1727).
1641Milton Ch. Govt. Concl. 53 A sort of formal outside men prelatically addicted. 1646T. Coleman Brotherly Exam. Re-exam. 12, I feare lest the Presbyteriall government..should Prelatically tyrannize. a1659T. Morton Episc. ii. §2 (1670) 30 This is as much as any Prelatically minded man could..say. |