Defn: Of or pertaining to printing; typographical. [Obs.] Fuller.
PRELATE Prel"ate (; 48), n. Etym: [F. prélat, LL. praelatus, fr. L. praelatus, used as p. p. of praeferre to prefer, but from a different root. See Elate.]
Defn: A clergyman of a superior order, as an archbishop or a bishop, having authority over the lower clergy; a dignitary of the church.
Note: This word and the words derived from it are often used invidiously, in English ecclesiastical history, by dissenters, respecting the Established Church system. Hear him but reason in divinity, . . . You would desire the king were made a prelate. Shak.
PRELATE
Prel"ate, v. i.
Defn: To act as a prelate. [Obs.]
Right prelating is busy laboring, and not lording. Latimer.
PRELATEITY
Prel`a*te"i*ty, n.
Defn: Prelacy. [Obs.] Milton.
PRELATESHIP
Prel"ate*ship, n.
Defn: The office of a prelate. Harmar.