metropolitanate
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
metropolitan + -ate
Noun[edit]
metropolitanate (plural metropolitanates)
- The see of a metropolitan bishop.
- 1855, Henry Hart Milman, History of Latin Christianity[1]:
- that ascending ladder of ecclesiastical honours , the priorate , the abbacy , the bishopric , the metropolitanate , the cardinalate , and even that which was beyond and above all .
References[edit]
- “metropolitanate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.