lords spiritual
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Lord Halifax, Randolph Churchill and such formidable lords spiritual as the Archbishops of Canterbury and York.
From Time Magazine Archive
Twenty-six bishops of the Church of England sit as lords spiritual, and 154 life peers have been created under the 1958 act.
From Time Magazine Archive
The lords spiritual are representative life peers—they are the senior bishops, and they are appointed to represent a corporation—the Established Church.
From Mankind in the Making by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)
These are the constituent parts of a parliament, the king, the lords spiritual and temporal, and the commons.
From Commentaries on the Laws of England Book the First by Blackstone, William, Sir
Present Ascendancy.—Legally, as has been explained, Parliament consists of the king, the lords spiritual, the lords temporal, and the commons.
From The Governments of Europe by Ogg, Frederic Austin
