PRE'LACY, noun [from prelate.] The office or dignity of a prelate. Prelacies may be termed the greater benefices. 1. Episcopacy; the order of bishops. How many are there that call themselves protestants, who put prelacy and popery together as terms convertible? 2. Bishops, collectively. Divers of the reverend prelacy
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