Vocabulary Word
Word: prelate
Definition: church dignitary; priest of high position in the church (esp. bishop)
Definition: church dignitary; priest of high position in the church (esp. bishop)
Sentences Containing 'prelate'
It is acknowledged on all hands, says that learned prelate, that the authority, either of the scripture or of tradition, is founded merely in the testimony of the apostles, who were eye-witnesses to those miracles of our Saviour, by which he proved his divine mission.
For, instead of a long train with royal diadems, I saw in one family two fiddlers, three spruce courtiers, and an Italian prelate.
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