prelacy

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The element of absolutism and prelacy was controlling.

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Webster, Noah

Both were the first Protestants of their respective houses, both were attached to prelacy rather than to Presbyterianism, and both were wasteful and slovenly in money matters.

From Sir Thomas Urquhart of Cromartie, Knight by Willcock, John

This confraternity embraces the flower of the Roman prelacy, the patrician order and the priesthood.”

From Pius IX. And His Time by Dawson, Æneas MacDonell

Yet notwithstanding of all opposition, prelacy was again restored in parliament.

From A Hind Let Loose Or, An Historical Representation of the Testimonies of the Church of Scotland for the Interest of Christ. With the True State Thereof in All Its Periods by Shields, Alexander

The Sovereign Pontiff and the flower of the Roman prelacy begged her to take up her residence in the Eternal City, but she could not be prevailed upon to leave the land of her birth.

From Woman in Science With an Introductory Chapter on Woman's Long Struggle for Things of the Mind by Zahm, John Augustine