Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A chief prelate. Hooker.
Wiktionary
- n. An archbishop or other chief prelate.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. An archbishop or other chief prelate.
Etymologies
- arch- + prelate (Wiktionary)
Examples
“James is also a grateful person, and when he gets his hand in play, he may, if he be so minded, make this reverend gentleman archprelate of Canterbury, and Dr. Mixit chief physician to his household, and commit his royal beard to the care of my friend”
“Mauger, archprelate and spiritual chief, and the more so as the law was with him; but when I resolved to stay despite thy sentence which banished me, I resolved to aid thee; for if with Mauger was the dead law, with thee was the living cause of man.”
“The serge gowns came rustling round the archprelate for counsel or courage.”
“It was natural that I, priest and foreigner, should obey at first the orders of Mauger, archprelate and spiritual chief, and the more so as the law was with him; but when I resolved to stay despite thy sentence which banished me, I resolved to aid thee; for if with”
“Chief of the mitred saints, and from archprelate here,”
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