prelacy

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As the first settlers of Massachusetts, whether Puritan or Pilgrim, had fled away from prelacy, so their spiritual descendants still hated the name of bishop.

From The Siege of Boston by French, Allen

To this prelacy and intolerance would have been joined inevitably.

From The Life and Times of Ulric Zwingli by Hottinger, Johann Jakob

The element of absolutism and prelacy was controlling.

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Webster, Noah

Prel′atism, Prel′ature, prelacy: the time during which a prelate exercises authority; Prel′atist, an upholder of prelacy.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various

The Cavaliers being the Court party, and the Roundheads the Country party, the union was infallible betwixt the former and the established prelacy, and betwixt the latter and Presbyterian nonconformists.

From Essays by Hume, David