Definition of "prelatic" []

• Alternative form of prelatical. (adjective)

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• "Protestant -- that is, a prelatic Government -- to persecute ony portion o '"
• "Heaven for sending Jeanie safe down from the land of prelatic deadness and schismatic heresy; and had delivered her from the dangers of the way, and the lions that were in the path."
• "Presbyterian kirk to have entered a prelatic place of worship, and would, upon any other occasion, have thought that she beheld in the porch the venerable figure of her father waving her back from the entrance, and pronouncing in a solemn tone, “Cease, my child, to hear the instruction which causeth to err from the words of knowledge.”"