prelate

See also: Prelate

English

Etymology

From Old French prelat, from Medieval Latin praelatus, from past participle of praeferre (“to prefer”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, US) IPA^(key): /ˈpɹɛlət/

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Noun

prelate (plural prelates)

1. A clergyman of high rank and authority, having jurisdiction over an area or a group of people; normally a bishop.
   • 1599, William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act I, scene i]:

     Hear him but reason in divinity, […] / You would desire the king were made a prelate.

   • 1845, William Palmer, Origines Liturgicae, or, Antiquities of the English Ritual: And a Dissertation on Primitive Liturgies‎^[1], volume 2, 4th edition, London: Francis & John Rivington, OCLC 25757264, page 310:

     Inthronization, in ancient times, immediately succeeded the rite of consecration; the new bishop being honourably placed in his episcopal chair by the prelates assembled for his consecration.

Derived terms

Derived terms

• prelateship
• prelatess
• prelatic
• prelatical

• prelatise
• prelatist
• prelatize
• prelatry

Related terms

Related terms

• Opus Dei
• Personal Prelate
• prelacy
• prelatial

• prelation
• prelature
• prefer
• preferred
• preference

Translations

clergyman

• Basque: prelatu
• Bulgarian: свещеник (bg) m (sveštenik), прелат m (prelat)
• Catalan: prelat m
• Czech: prelát (cs) m
• Danish: prælat c
• Dutch: kerkvorst (nl) m, prelaat (nl) m
• Finnish: prelaatti (fi)
• French: prélat (fr) m
• Galician: prelado m
• German: Prälat (de) m
• Hungarian: prelátus (hu), főpap (hu)
• Italian: prelato (it) m

• Lithuanian: prelatas
• Norwegian Bokmål: prelatas m
• Occitan: prelat m
• Polish: prałat (pl) m
• Portuguese: prelado (pt) m
• Russian: прела́т (ru) m (prelát)
• Spanish: prelado (es) m
• Swedish: prelat (sv)
• Tagalog: prelado
• Ukrainian: прела́т (uk) m (prelát)
• Vilamovian: prałāt m

Verb

prelate (third-person singular simple present prelates, present participle prelating, simple past and past participle prelated)

1. (obsolete) To act as a prelate.
   • 18 January 1549, Hugh Latimer, Sermon of the Plough

     Right prelating is busy labouring, and not lording.

Anagrams

• pleater, replate, repleat