prelature (prelatur)

[ Lycia. is chiefly celebrated for the holy Bishop S. Nicolas, whose praise is in all churches, though the time of his prelature is somewhat uncertain. J. M. Neale , Eastern Church, i. 40. 2. Prelacy; the order of prelates. The younger branches of the great princely families. by no means disdained the lofty titles, the dignity, the splendid and wealthy palaces of the Prelature . Milman , Latin Christianity, xiv. 1. prelatył (prel'ā-ti), n. [ prelatie , prelacie , ML.prælati a , prelacy: see prelacy .] 1. Prelacy; episcopрасу. It was not the prevention of schisme, but it was schisme it selfe, and the hate full thirst of Lording in the Church, that first bestow'd a being upon Prelaty . Milton, Church-Government, i. 6. 2. A prelatical office. [Rare.] Laborious teaching is the most honourable Prelaty that one Minister can have above another in the Gospell. Milton , Church-Government, i. 3. prelect (pre-lekt'), v . [Also prælect ; præ We charge the Prelatical Clergy with Popery to make them odious. Selden , Table-Talk, p. 88. We hold it [the Presbyterial government) no more to be the hedge and bulwark of religion than the Popish or Prelatical courts, or the Spanish Inquisition. Milton , Articles of Peace with the Irish. The prelatical party, which had endeavored again and Bancroft, Hist. U. S., I. 267. again to colonize the coast, had tried only to fail. prelatically (prē-lat'i-kal-i), adv. As a prelate; with reference to prelacy. prelationt (pre-la's hon), n. [ A direct preference or prelation , a preferring sin before grace. Jer. Taylor , Works (ed. 1835), I. 657. 2. The state of being preferred or exalted above others; preëminence; preferment. Let, therefore, our life be moderate, our desires reasonable, our hopes little, our ends none in eminency and pre lati on above others. Jer. Taylor , Works (ed. 1835), I. 104. before (others), lecture upon, II. in trans. To read a lecture or discourse in public; hence, to discourse publicly; lecture. I should seem not to have taken warning by the contempt which fell on that conceited Greek who had the vanity to prelect upon the military art before the conquerors of Asia. Horsley, Works, III. xxxix. Spitting was shown to be a very difficult act, and publicly prelected upon about the same time, in the same great De Quincey , Conversation. capital.