prelatic

• 'He was then prelatic,' says Wodrow in his Analecta , 'and strong for the ceremonies.' —  Samuel Rutherford
• The Scotch had claimed equality with the English church: to give the legal rights of a court to the bishop was to create local disparity; while the presbyterian had no religious objection to ecclesiastical courts, the other non-prelatic communions abhorred them A variety of differences had created a coldness between the governor and the bishop. —  The History of Tasmania, Volume I
• The Commissioners of Assembly, who were now mere creatures of the King, appeared before Parliament, petitioning it to give the Church the right of representation, so as to restore it to its former position as the Third Estate of the realm; proposing also, that for this end the prelatic order should be revived, and the Bishops chosen as the Church's representatives. —  Andrew Melville Famous Scots Series
• 'He was then prelatic,' says Wodrow in his Analecta_, 'and strong for the ceremonies.' —  Samuel Rutherford and some of his correspondents
• It disna' beseem a Protestant--that is, a prelatic Government--to persecute ony portion o' Christian people on, account o' their religion. —  Willy Reilly The Works of William Carleton, Volume One

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