Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A chief prelate. Hooker.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun An archbishop or other chief prelate.
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- noun An
archbishop or otherchief prelate .
Etymologies
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Examples
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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
Rob Roy 1887
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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.
Harold : the Last of the Saxon Kings — Volume 02 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838
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The serge gowns came rustling round the archprelate for counsel or courage.
Harold : the Last of the Saxon Kings — Volume 12 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838
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The serge gowns came rustling round the archprelate for counsel or courage.
Harold : the Last of the Saxon Kings — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838
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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
Harold : the Last of the Saxon Kings — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838
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Chief of the mitred saints, and from archprelate here,
The Poems of Jonathan Swift, D.D., Volume 1 Jonathan Swift 1706
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