prelatistn.
/ˈprɛlətɪst/, U.S. /ˈprɛlədəst/ Chiefly derogatory.
A person who practises prelatism; a supporter or adherent of episcopacy, an episcopalian.
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bishopist1590
prelatist1641
cathedralist1644
episcoparian1649
episcopal1709
episcopalian1738
1641 L. F. Index Churches Codex 54 in Speedy Remedie Secondly, the Prelatists, that it is the Arch-Prelacie, with its Sub-Prelates and Priests.
1659 Steward Serm. at Paris Pref. sig. A v The Preacher, as great a Prelatist as any whom unkinde or jealous Brethren have ever blasted under that title.
1721 R. Wodrow Corr. (1843) II. 594 Our prelatists and Jacobites, I hear, are much chagrined.
1827 H. Hallam Constit. Hist. Eng. I. vii. 447 Tolerance..of that proscribed worship was equally abhorrent to the prelatist and the puritan.
1856 U.S. Democratic Rev. Feb. 164 Oliver Cromwell..one less disposed to persecute than the Prelatists, or Puritans, of his day.
1887 C. M. Yonge Under Storm xiii. 142 No one wants to hurt the lad, young prelatist though he be.
1927 J. Buchan Witch Wood xvii. 297 She's been brocht up amang papists and prelatists.
1957 Amer. Hist. Rev. 62 846 To the Anglicans, Pierce and Hammond, Grotius appeared as prelatist and peacemaker.
1989 Washington Times (Nexis) 3 July d9 He..describes with some care the virtues and shortcomings of Tory and Whig, Puritan and Papist, Prelatist and Presbyterian.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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