单词 | prelate |
释义 | prelaten. 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. 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. 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. ΚΠ 1746 Acct. French Settlem. N. Amer. 24 The prelate-founder has his apartments in the house. 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. 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 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 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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