Definition of "generalate" [generalate]

• A district under the control or supervision of a general. (noun)
• The office of a general; a generalship. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "The most important work of her generalate was the compiling and collating of the present Rules and Constitution of the Sisters of Notre Dame."
• "In 1898, upon request of the religious of Tours, the original Constitutions, revised conformably to the new regulations of the Church for religious orders, were definitively approved by Leo XIII, and their branch erected as a generalate."
• "S. Maria Maddalena, Servants of the Sick (formerly their generalate), is now occupied by the elementary communal schools."