prelatic
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That stirred flutters of prelatic concern—was a reshuffle in store?
From Time Magazine Archive
When, in 1617, the King attempted to arrogate to himself and his prelatic council the power of enacting ecclesiastical laws, he was immediately met by a protestation against a measure so despotic.
From The Works of Mr. George Gillespie (Vol. 1 of 2) by George Gillespie
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
But, when the successes of a prelatic monarch, against a presbyterian parliament, were paving the way for rebuilding the system of hierarchy, they could no longer remain inactive.
From Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border, Volume 2 Consisting of Historical and Romantic Ballads, Collected in The Southern Counties of Scotland; with a Few of Modern Date, Founded Upon Local Tradition by Sir Walter Scott
Outward unity was, however, restored to the Church, both by prelatic and imperial authority, although learned and intellectual men continued to speculate and to doubt.
From Beacon Lights of History, Volume 04 Imperial Antiquity by John Lord
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