PRELATES
Noun
prelates
plural of prelate
Anagrams
• Pterelas, pasteler, pleaters, replates, repleats, restaple, spearlet
Source: Wiktionary
PRELATE
Prel"ate (; 48), n. Etym: [F. prélat, LL. praelatus, fr. L.
praelatus, used as p. p. of praeferre to prefer, but from a different
root. See Elate.]
Definition: A clergyman of a superior order, as an archbishop or a bishop,
having authority over the lower clergy; a dignitary of the church.
Note: This word and the words derived from it are often used
invidiously, in English ecclesiastical history, by dissenters,
respecting the Established Church system.
Hear him but reason in divinity, . . . You would desire the king were
made a prelate. Shak.
Prel"ate, v. i.
Definition: To act as a prelate. [Obs.]
Right prelating is busy laboring, and not lording. Latimer.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition