PRELATE

Dictionary of Science, Literature and Art · 1854 · p. 26
(Lat. prclatus.) A term commonly applied to bishops, archbishops and patriarchs, in Christian Churches. Anciently, mitred abbots seem nlso to have been called prelates. PRECLUDE (Lat. pre, before, and ludo, / play.) In Music, the preface or introduction to a movement, and usually consisting of a few bars of harmony in the same key as ■■incut which it precedes; being, in fact, a preparation to the car for what is to follow. PRE'. [s. 991]
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