lords spiritual
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Lord Halifax, Randolph Churchill and such formidable lords spiritual as the Archbishops of Canterbury and York.
From Time Magazine Archive
Twenty-six bishops of the Church of England sit as lords spiritual, and 154 life peers have been created under the 1958 act.
From Time Magazine Archive
It was also the first that granted aids towards the national defence of the three denominations of knights, citizens, and burgesses, as well as by the lords spiritual and temporal.
From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 17, No. 490, May 21, 1831 by Various
As this body is now constituted, the lords spiritual are two archbishops, twenty-four bishops, and four Irish representative prelates.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 70, August, 1863 by Various
Present Ascendancy.—Legally, as has been explained, Parliament consists of the king, the lords spiritual, the lords temporal, and the commons.
From The Governments of Europe by Ogg, Frederic Austin
