OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 20694

prelate

/ˈpɹɛlət/
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prelado
A clergyman of high rank and authority, having jurisdiction over an area or a group of people; normally a bishop.
Hear him but reason in divinity, […] / You would desire the king were made a prelate.
Inthronization, in ancient times, immediately succeeded the rite of consecration; the new bishop being honourably placed in his episcopal chair by the prelates assembled for his co…
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