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单词 prelate
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prelaten.

Brit. /ˈprɛlət/, U.S. /ˈprɛlət/
Forms: Middle English preelatis (plural), Middle English prelaat, Middle English prelas (plural), Middle English prelascs (plural, probably transmission error), Middle English prelath (perhaps transmission error), Middle English prelaz (plural), Middle English prelet, Middle English prelete, Middle English–1500s prelatte, Middle English–1600s prelat, Middle English–1600s prelatt, Middle English– prelate, 1500s prealate, 1600s praelate; Scottish pre-1700 praelatis (plural), pre-1700 praelatt, pre-1700 prelait, pre-1700 prelat, pre-1700 prelatt, pre-1700 prelayt, pre-1700 preleittis (plural), pre-1700 prelettis (plural), pre-1700 prellattis (plural), pre-1700 prelot, pre-1700 prolot, pre-1700 1700s– prelate.
Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French prelate; Latin praelatus.
Etymology: < (i) Anglo-Norman prelate, Old French prelait, Anglo-Norman and Old French, Middle French prelat (French prélat ) ecclesiastical dignitary (1155), leader, commander (c1175), and its etymon (ii) post-classical Latin praelatus noble (6th cent.), ecclesiastical dignitary, bishop, head of a religious house (9th cent.; from 10th cent. (frequently a1115–1562) in British sources), use as noun of classical Latin praelātus , past participle of praeferre prefer v. Compare Old Occitan prelat (1219; Occitan prelat), Catalan prelat (1281; c1260 as peralad), Spanish prelado (c1236), Portuguese prelado (13th cent.), Italian prelato (a1243).
1.
a. A cleric of high rank and authority, as a bishop, archbishop, or the superior of a religious house or order.
ΘΚΠ
society > faith > church government > member of the clergy > clerical superior > [noun]
bishopc893
prelate?c1225
prince of priests?c1225
high priestc1400
pontificala1450
emperor clerkc1475
gentleman untrial1486
dignitya1525
Aaron1565
hierarch1574
presul1577
monsignor1579
church governor1588
pontiff1589
archbishop1600
monseigneur1601
monsignor1611
sheikh1613
protomist1619
Mar1622
hyperochality1637
protarch1654
pontifex1655
prelatical1658
dignitary1672
hierophanta1676
Monsig.1698
ecclesiarch1781
arch-pontiff1790
Mgr1848
Msgr.1868
patriarch-
society > faith > church government > member of the clergy > clerical superior > various non-Christian superiors > [noun]
prelate?c1225
pope?a1425
?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 9 Gode religiuse beoð summe In þe world Nomeliche Prelaz & treowe Preachiurs.
c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1978) 12227 Dubriz þe archebiscop of Rome..wes legat and of þan hirede prelat.
c1325 (c1300) Chron. Robert of Gloucester (Calig.) 3686 (MED) Þe bissops & oþer prelascs..were Com wiþ gret procession.
1340 Ayenbite (1866) 237 Alsuo is þe spot of lecherie more uouler and more perilous ine clerkes and ine prelas.
c1400 J. Gower Eng. Wks. (1901) II. 488 The worldes princes and the prelatz bothe.
1485 W. Caxton tr. Lyf St. Wenefryde 9 Hys owne moder was prelate and chyef aboue the other relygyouse nonnes.
a1500 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 629 (MED) Prelatte or byschop [glossing antistes].
1562 A. Scott Poems (1896) i. 46 Lat perversit prelettis leif perqueir.
1586 W. Webbe Disc. Eng. Poetrie sig. E.iiiiv The loose and retchlesse lyuing of Popish Prelates.
1604 E. Grimeston tr. J. de Acosta Nat. & Morall Hist. Indies iii. ix. 150 A reverend religious man, of the Order of Saint Dominike, and Prelate thereof.
1644 J. Milton Areopagitica 5 This project of licencing..was catcht up by our Prelates.
1690 C. Ness Compl. Hist. & Myst. Old & New Test. I. 59 Popish prelates..tyrannizing also over the bones of the dead.
1765 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. I. xi. 378 The usual method of granting these investitures, which was per annulum et baculum, by the prince's delivering to the prelate a ring, and a pastoral staff or crosier.
1776 D. Hume My own Life in Hist. Eng. (1812) I. Pref. 11 The primate of England,..primate of Ireland... These dignified prelates separately sent me a message not to be discouraged.
1806 J. Lingard Antiq. Anglo-Saxon Church II. vii. 31 The presence of at least three prelates was required at the consecration of a bishop.
1856 R. W. Emerson Eng. Traits xiii. 227 The curates are ill paid, and the prelates are overpaid.
1911 Catholic Encycl. XII. 386/2 Prelate... The real prelates include..(3) abbots and provosts of monasteries.
1916 J. McCabe Crises in Hist. of Papacy 78 Two centuries after the death of Gregory the Great we still find an occasional prelate of rare piety, such as Alcuin, scanning the horizon for signs of the approaching dissolution.
1994 Homiletic & Pastoral Rev. June 52/2 The new bishop..encouraged other prelates to build additional parochial schools in their dioceses.
b. A chief priest of a religion other than Christianity, esp. Judaism. Obsolete.
ΚΠ
c1400 (?c1380) Cleanness (1920) 1249 (MED) Prestes and prelates þay presed to deþe.
c1450 (?a1400) Wars Alexander (Ashm.) 1499 (MED) Pas, þou & bi prelatis, & prestis of þe temple.
1526 Bible (Tyndale) Matt. xxviii. f. xliij The kepers..shewed vnto the prelattes, all thinges whych had hapened.
1541 T. Elyot Image of Gouernance i. f. 1v Bicause he was prelate in the temple of the sunne, whome the Phenices do calle Heliogabalus.
a1600 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie vii. xviii, in Wks. (1662) 53 Moses and Aaron..the chief Prince, and chief Prelate.
1600 P. Holland tr. Livy Rom. Hist. xxvii. vi. 630 C. Servilius the Prelate or Pontifex, was invested and installed in stead of T. Octacilius Crassus.
1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. 193 The Druidæ or Prelats of France aboue named, make great account of another herb..which they name Samolus.
2. A person with superiority or authority; a chief, a head, a superior. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
society > authority > [noun] > those in authority > person in authority
mastereOE
herOE
lordOE
overmana1325
overling1340
seignior1393
prelatea1475
oversman1505
signor1583
hogen mogen1639
boss-cocky1898
man1918
trump1937
authority figure1948
Great White Father1960
a1475 Bp. Grossetest's Househ. Stat. (Sloane 1986) in Babees Bk. (2002) i. 328 Sey ȝe, that be principalle heuede or prelate to alle ȝoure seruauntis bothe lesse and more.
a1500 tr. Thomas à Kempis De Imitatione Christi (Trin. Dublin) (1893) 10 To stonde under obedience & lyue under a prelate, & not be at his ovne liberte.
a1631 J. Donne Βιαθανατος (1647) ii. vi. §8 And thus dyed..These Prelates of virginitie, Captaines of Chastitie, and companions in Martyrdome.
1780 tr. U. von Troil Lett. on Iceland p. xvii Dr. Von Troil..is prelate of all the Swedish orders of knighthood.

Compounds

C1. General attributive and appositive.
prelate-founder n. Obsolete
ΚΠ
1746 Acct. French Settlem. N. Amer. 24 The prelate-founder has his apartments in the house.
prelate-lord n. Obsolete
ΚΠ
1673 J. Milton On New Forcers of Conscience in Poems (new ed.) 69 Because you have thrown of your Prelate Lord, And with stiff Vowes renounc'd his Liturgie.
1841 T. H. Gill Fortunes of Faith iii. 83 The people, severed from the rites they loved, Were bound by forms their prelate-lords approved.
prelate-prince n.
ΚΠ
1850 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. July 8/1 Passionately fond of art, the prelate-prince gathered around him the men of genius whom the largesses and magnificence of Francis I. seduced from Italy to France.
1995 J. Israel Dutch Republic 418 The clashes between the Wittelsbach prelate-prince Ernst..and the city of Münster, in 1607, generated a conflict of political ideologies.
C2.
prelate-martyr n. now historical any of the members of the Protestant episcopacy who were murdered during the reign of Queen Mary I (1553-8).
ΚΠ
1641 J. Milton Of Reformation 76 For those Prelat-Martyrs they glory of, they are to bee judg'd what they were by the Gospel.
1996 Hist. Today (Nexis) June 23 After the 1641 national crisis, attitudes to the Marian prelate-martyrs became more divided.
2001 Renaissance Q. 54 30 John Hooper, a prelate-martyr whose fiery fate was a prelude to Cranmer's.
prelate-Protestant n. derogatory Obsolete a Protestant of an episcopal church.
ΘΚΠ
society > faith > sect > Christianity > Protestantism > [noun] > person > of episcopal church
prelate-Protestanta1671
a1671 S. Mather Irenicum (1680) 9 Not only the Independents and the Presbyterians, but the very Papists, and Prelate-Protestants have thought it lawful.
prelate purple n. now rare the shade of purple worn by bishops (cf. cardinal adj. 7).
ΘΚΠ
the world > matter > colour > named colours > purple or purpleness > [noun] > deep purple
royal purple1605
imperial purple1750
Parma violet1822
Modena1879
prelate purple1881
pontiff purple1900
violette de Parme1904
1881 Stevens Point (Wisconsin) Jrnl. 9 Jan. Some of the contrasts of color now employed for dress are very handsome..Prelate purple goes with heliotrope.
1916 Star & Sentinel (Gettysburg, Pa.) 10 Jan. 2/5 A continued use of scarlet, bright blue, flame pink, prelate purple, emerald green and ruby.

Derivatives

ˈprelate-like adv. and adj.
ΚΠ
1568 (a1500) Freiris Berwik 183 in W. T. Ritchie Bannatyne MS (1930) IV. 266 So prelat lyk sat he in to þe chyre.
a1614 J. Melville Autobiogr. & Diary (1842) 781 At that parliament thai rayd royallie and prelat-lyk.
1721 G. Roussillon in T. Betterton Henry IV, Part ii Prol. For fighting Their leading Bishop never took delight in, But Prelate like, first battl'd with his Tongue, Gave up his Cause, and then devoutly swung.
1787 W. Beckford Portuguese Jrnl. 30 May (1954) 48 He [sc. the Grand Prior] arrived at six, a good portly prelate-like figure, very cheerful and cordial.
2001 Observer (Nexis) 29 Apr. 10 All perfunctory smiles and prelate-like sanctimoniousness.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2007; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

prelatev.1

Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French prélater; Latin praelāt-, praeferre.
Etymology: < Middle French prélater to prefer, advance (c1380) and its etymon classical Latin praelāt-, past participial stem (see -ate suffix3) of praeferre prefer v. With sense 3 compare French se prélasser , †se prelater to act the prelate, affect gravitas (1532 in Middle French; < prélat prelate n.). Compare earlier prefer v.
Obsolete.
1. transitive. To utter, pronounce. rare.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > language > speech > speak, say, or utter [verb (transitive)] > articulate or pronounce
sayOE
shapec1200
formc1300
pronouncec1390
sound1543
prelatea1549
frame1549
articulate1561
annunciate1763
enunciate1767
enounce1829
a1549 A. Borde Fyrst Bk. Introd. Knowl. (?1555) xxiii. sig. I.i An Englyshman without teachyng can not speake nor prelate the wordes of an Italyan.
2. transitive. To exalt, raise, or prefer in rank or power.
ΘΚΠ
society > society and the community > social class > accord social rank to [verb (transitive)] > elevate or raise to a higher position
raisec1175
elevate1509
amount1523
bear?1529
advance?1566
elate1578
prelate1626
hitch1805
1626 T. Hawkins tr. N. Caussin Holy Court I. i. 89 To be borne into the world supereminently, prelated [Fr. auantagez] aboue all the creatures of the world.
1661 A. Brome Songs & Other Poems 154 Twas to make him (such honours to him given) Regis Professor to the King of Heaven. By whom hee's prelated above the skies.
a1667 G. Wither Misc. Wks. (1872–7) 167 They do pretend themselves to be Prelated above others in degree.
3. transitive (reflexive). To affect an air of dignity and ostentatious gravity. rare.
ΚΠ
1685 C. Cotton tr. M. de Montaigne Ess. III. 386 I see some, who..prelate themselves even to the heart and liver [Fr. qui se prelatent jusques au foye et aux intestins] and carry their state along with them, even to the close-stool.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2007; most recently modified version published online June 2020).

prelatev.2

Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: prelate n.
Etymology: < prelate n. Compare earlier prelating n., prelating adj.
Obsolete.
transitive with it. To perform the office of a prelate.
ΘΚΠ
society > faith > church government > member of the clergy > clerical superior > act as clerical superior [verb (intransitive)]
prelate1656
1656 S. Hunton Golden Law 22 That the Presbyterie might Prelate it under the Notion of Priests, and so crush all other Sects.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2007; most recently modified version published online September 2018).
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