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prelatist|ˈprɛlətɪst|
[f. prelate n. + -ist.]
A supporter or adherent of prelacy; a hostile term for an episcopalian.
1659Steward Serm. at Paris Pref. A v, The Preacher, as great a Prelatist as any whom unkinde or jealous Brethren have ever blasted under that title. 1721Wodrow Corr. (1843) II. 594 Our prelatists and Jacobites, I hear, are much chagrined. 1827Hallam Const. Hist. (1876) I. vii. 414 Tolerance..of that proscribed worship, was equally abhorrent to the prelatist and the puritan. |