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Meaning of prelaty | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B1

/ˈpɹɛləti/

Definitions

The system of ecclesiastic governance by prelates or bishops; episcopacy, prelacy.

historical, uncountable

Examples

“That those evills of Prelaty which before from five or six and twenty Sees were distributivly charg'd upon the whole people, will now light wholly upon learning, is not obscure to us […]”

CEFR level

B1

Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.

See also

prelaw prelay prelaying prelearning prelease prelection