单词 | spiritual lord |
释义 | > as lemmasspiritual lord spiritual lord n. now rare a high-ranking cleric; spec. an ecclesiastical member of the House of Lords; (in plural) the ecclesiastical members of the House of Lords, considered collectively; = Lords Spiritual n. at lord n. and int. Compounds 2; (cf. sense A. 4a). ΘΚΠ society > faith > church government > member of the clergy > clerical superior > bishop > kinds of bishop > [noun] > peers spiritual lord1399 Lords Spiritual1404 1399 Rolls of Parl.: Henry IV (Electronic ed.) Parl. Oct. 1399 Pleas §9. m. 2 The kyng comond wythe his spirituel lordes. 1527 Statutes Prohemium Iohannis Rastell (new ed.) f. c.lxxxviii The spyrytual lordys assentyd to this estatue. 1701 H. Hody Hist. Eng. Councils ii. 130 Some of the Spiritual Lords their neglecting to come to Parliament, as their Tenure necessarily obliged 'em to do. 1829 Crypt Mar. 100 It is remarkable that a spiritual Lord should be addressed simply by his title, without the designation of his rank,—a mode usually confined solely to temporal Peers. 1966 Jrnl. Brit. Stud. 5 59 The number of spiritual lords remained constant: twenty-four bishops and two archbishops. < as lemmas |
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