prelatic
Example Sentences
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That stirred flutters of prelatic concern—was a reshuffle in store?
From Time Magazine Archive
From that time forward, he held an undisputed position among the foremost of the distinguished men by whose talents and energy the Church of Scotland was delivered from prelatic despotism.
From The Works of Mr. George Gillespie (Vol. 1 of 2) by George Gillespie
Many matters, in which the old prelatic church had usurped upon the domain of the state, should be replaced under the secular authority.
From Milton by Mark Pattison
They profess the moral obligation of the covenants, and yet at the same time maintain the lawfulness of every providential government, whether popish or prelatic, if set up by the body politic.
From Act, Declaration, & Testimony for the Whole of our Covenanted Reformation, as Attained to, and Established in Britain and Ireland; Particularly Betwixt the Years 1638 and 1649, Inclusive by The Reformed Presbytery
There is something so shameless in this self-contradiction as of itself almost to extinguish the belief that the prelatic royalists were conscientious in their conclusions.
From The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge by Henry Nelson Coleridge
