单词 | prelature |
释义 | prelaturen. 1. The position, rank, or office of prelate; the condition or functions of a prelate. Also: a prelatial benefice or see; a territory under the jurisdiction of a prelate (cf. personal prelature n. at personal adj., n., and adv. Compounds). Cf. prelacy n. 1. ΘΚΠ society > faith > church government > member of the clergy > clerical superior > [noun] > office of prelacya1387 pontificals?a1475 officialshipc1475 bishopric1520 high priesthood1535 superintendence1561 prelateship1570 pontificality1593 officiality1597 prelature1602 prelation1611 prelaty1641 pontificacy1665 pontificate1702 officialty1720 presulate1853 1602 A. Copley Another Let. to Dis-iesuited Kinseman 46 How corrupt a man the Archpriest is, who..could let himselfe be so instrumentally led by those fathers against his owne deare brethren of the Seminaries..all for a litle fopperie of Prelature. a1612 J. Harington Brief View Church of Eng. in Nugæ Antiquæ (1804) II. 99 One of the most eminent of his ranke, and a man that carryes prelature in his verie aspect. 1669 Hist. Pope's Nephews (1673) i. 70 He heaped Abbies and Prelatures upon them as many as they pleased. 1725 D. Cotes tr. L. E. Du Pin New Eccl. Hist. 17th Cent. I. v. 99 The Bishops exercised, anciently, as they do at present, both the Prelature and the Priesthood. 1844 Life St. Wilfrid 149 This poor statesmanship..filling prelatures with barely respectable mediocrity. 1876 Sir G. Bowyer in Times 8 Nov. 6 [Antonelli] speedily rose to a judicial office, and then to the prelature. 1938 Geogr. Rev. 28 380 Even today aldeias are being founded: in the past twenty years the Salesians in the prelature of São Gabriel on the Rio Negro have established a dozen. 1982 Daily Tel. 24 Aug. 11/5 Last year the Spanish bishops voted 55–9 against a prelature for Opus Dei. 2004 E. L. Cleary Resurgent Voices in Lat. Amer. 62 (note) Instituto de Estudios Aymaras, Chucuito, near Puno, Peru, was founded by Frank McGourn, M.M., as part of the Prelature of Juli. 2. = prelacy n. 2. Now rare. ΘΚΠ society > faith > church government > member of the clergy > clerical superior > [noun] > collectively prelacya1393 Lords Spiritual1404 pontificala1450 pontificality1486 prelatry1641 prelature1820 society > faith > church government > member of the clergy > clerical superior > bishop > [noun] > collective prelacya1393 bishopdom1641 prelatry1641 episcopacya1797 prelatehood1804 prelature1820 episcopate1842 episcopy1874 episcopature1884 1820 J. Milner Suppl. Mem. Eng. Catholics 214 The first [point] was to collect a synod of Prelates, who, by their number might, in some degree equipoise the Irish Prelature. 1845 S. Austin tr. L. von Ranke Hist. Reformation in Germany (ed. 2) I. 333 Arimbold, a member of the Roman prelature. 1855 H. H. Milman Hist. Lat. Christianity VI. xiv. i. 388 The dignity, the splendid and wealthy palaces of the Prelature. 1947 Traverse City (Mich.) Record-Eagle 23 Dec. 2/3 The customary presentation of greetings..on the part of the Sacred College and the Roman Prelature cannot be carried out. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1602 |
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