prelatism
noun
prelacy; episcopacy.
prelatist
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a word derived from
prelatism.
Example Sentences
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As I live, 'tis the young prelatist who bowed himself down in the house of Rimmon!
From Under the Storm by Charlotte Mary Yonge
"I have saved this prelatist and malignant from his adversaries, and now"——He considered a while, muttering his thoughts and arguments to himself with a most confused and volatile impetuosity of ratiocination.
From Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 2 by John Roby
The talk went that old Dr. Eales, you mind him, sir, before he died, came out and held a prelatist service, begging your pardon, sir, and that the things were used.
From Under the Storm by Charlotte Mary Yonge
"What is this I hear, Kenton," said the squire, "that you have been having a prelatist service on your ground?"
From Under the Storm by Charlotte Mary Yonge
He is a prelatist, who has sought the camp under the disguise of an Erastian, and all, and more than all, that has been said of him must needs be verity.
From Old Mortality, Volume 2. by Sir Walter Scott
