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Meanings of prelacy in English

Catalan
prelacia
Spanish
prelatura

Prelates collectively.

prelacia
Usage of prelacy in English
1
Nobody more fascinating and decorative could be found among the whole Roman prelacy.
The Three Cities Trilogy: Rome, Volume 4
2
Our mountain of prelacy hath all these three bad qualities: 1.
The Covenants And The Covenanters / Covenants, Sermons, and Docu...
3
Is it a respect to prelacy that hinders thee, O Scotland?
The Covenants And The Covenanters / Covenants, Sermons, and Docu...
4
But the names of "Dominations," "Principalities," and "Powers" of themselves imply prelacy.
Summa Theologica, Part I (Prima Pars) / From the Complete Americ...
5
In a church, moreover, based upon such a theology there was no room for prelacy.
The Beginnings of New England / Or the Puritan Theocracy in its ...
6
We swear "to endeavour the extirpation of popery, prelacy, superstition, heresy, and schism."
The Covenants And The Covenanters / Covenants, Sermons, and Docu...
7
The warfare between Christmas and Thanksgiving, the one being thought the badge of popery and prelacy.
Toasts and Forms of Public Address for Those Who Wish to Say the...
8
Some have imagined that they have discovered inconsistency in the statements of Jerome relative to prelacy.
The Ancient Church: Its History, Doctrine, Worship, and Constitu...
9
To have forced prelacy upon Scotland would have been to destroy the life out of Scotland.
Short Studies on Great Subjects
10
Was the earl dealing with the prelacy?
Shadow's son
11
He and his men the servants, not of the people, but of Jermyn; prelacy and malignancy spread abroad.
St. George's Cross; Or, England Above All
12
Scotland sent letters assuring the bishops of the sympathy of the Presbyterians, hostile though they were to prelacy.
The World's Greatest Books — Volume 12 — Modern History
13
Popery and prelacy alone, whose genius seemed to tend towards superstition, were treated by the Independents with rigor.
The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol. I., Part E. / From...
14
The hand of the law was to fall heavily upon "popery, prelacy, or licentiousness of opinion."
Pioneers of the Old South: A Chronicle of English Colonial Begin...
15
Am I indeed resolved in like manner, without respect of persons, to endeavour the extirpation of popery, prelacy?
The Covenants And The Covenanters / Covenants, Sermons, and Docu...
16
Some in Othir said they were the real power behind the prelacy, but Caim paid little heed to politics.
Shadow's son
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