prelacy

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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

The Quaker, therefore, soon participated in the persecutions which prelacy thought due to liberal christianity.

From Calvert and Penn Or the Growth of Civil and Religious Liberty in America, as Disclosed in the Planting of Maryland and Pennsylvania by Mayer, Brantz

The western and eastern prelacy subscribed in compliance with their sovereign to the Arian creed, which, as Du Pin has shown, was signed by his infallibility, Pope Liberius.

From The Christian Foundation, Or, Scientific and Religious Journal, Volume I, No. 10. October, 1880 by Walker, Aaron