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Definition: Prelate |
PrelateNoun1. A senior clergyman. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "prelate" was first used: 12th century. (references) |
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Satire | PRELATE, n. A church officer having a superior degree of holiness and a fat preferment. One of Heaven's aristocracy. A gentleman of God. Source: Devil's Dictionary. |
Literature | Prelate means simply a man preferred, a man promoted to an ecclesiastical office which gives him jurisdiction over other clergymen. Cardinals, bishops, abbots, and archdeacons were at one time so called, but the term, is restricted in the Protestant Church to bishops. (Latin, præfero, preoelatus.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
A prelature is the office of a prelate. Prelacy is the body of prelates as a whole, or a system of government, administration, or ministry by prelates.
In the Roman Catholic Church, the power to create Personal Prelatures was introduced in the Second Vatican Council; they are institutions having clergy and (possibly) lay members which would carry out specific pastoral activities. The adjective personal refers to the fact that, in contrast with previous canonical use for ecclesiastical institutions, the jurisdiction of the Prelate is not linked to a territory but over persons wherever they be.
The first Personal Prelature was Opus Dei, erected by Pope John Paul II in 1982.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Prelate."
Synonyms: PrelateSynonyms: archpriest (n), hierarch (n), high priest (n), primate (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Clergy | Dignitaries of the church; ecclesiarch, hierarch; ebdomarius; eminence, reverence, elder, primate, metropolitan, archbishop, bishop, prelate, diocesan, suffragan, dean, subdean, archdeacon, prebendary, canon, rural dean, rector, parson, vicar, perpetual curate, residentiary, beneficiary, incumbent, chaplain, curate; deacon, deaconess; preacher, reader, lecturer; capitular; missionary, propagandist, Jesuit, revivalist, field preacher. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Prelate |
| English words defined with "prelate": Archprelate, Armand Jean du Plessis ♦ Cardinal Newman, Cardinal Richelieu ♦ Desmond Tutu, Duc de Richelieu ♦ Episcopate ♦ Francisco Jimenez de Cisneros ♦ Inge ♦ James Usher, James Ussher, Jimenez de Cisneros, John Henry Newman ♦ Newman ♦ Pastoral staff, prelacy, Prelateship, Prelatess, prelature, Prelatureship ♦ Richelieu ♦ Stefan Wyszynski ♦ the Gloomy Dean, Tutu ♦ Unprelated, Usher, Ussher ♦ William of Wykeham, William Ralph Inge, Wykeham, Wyszynski. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "prelate": DRUIDS ♦ Fighting Prelate ♦ Oleaginous. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "prelate": Archprelate ♦ Prelacy. (references) |
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Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | For instead of a long train with royal diadems, I saw in one family two fiddlers, three spruce courtiers, and an Italian prelate. |
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Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | OLEAGINOUS, adj. Oily, smooth, sleek. Disraeli once described the manner of Bishop Wilberforce as "unctuous, oleaginous, saponaceous." And the good prelate was ever afterward known as Soapy Sam. For every man there is something in the vocabulary that would stick to him like a second skin. His enemies have only to find it. |
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| "Prelate" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Prelate" is used about 20 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 20 | 78,262 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "prelate": arch-prelate. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
prelate | 6 |
prelate presiding | 4 |
prelate shadowbane template | 3 |
prelate shadowbane | 3 |
guide prelate shadowbane | 3 |
prelate template | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "prelate"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | prelat, klerik i lartë. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | أسقف (bishop, ordinance). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | прелат. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | prelát. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | مطران (Archbishop), کشیش ارشد (Primate), خلیفه (Caliph, Vicar), اسقف اعظم (Archbishop). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | prélat. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | prälat. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | ιεράρχησ (hierarch). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | כומר בכיר. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | prelátus, pap (clergyman, cleric, clerical, clerk, clerk in holy orders, ecclesiastic, minister, officiating minister, parson, Poppa, priest, rector, rev.), fõpap (high priest, pontiff), főpap (hierarch), egyházi ember. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | wali gereja. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | prelato. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 修院長 (abbot, prior), 主教 (bishop, primate). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | しゅきょう (bishop, merrymaking, primate), しゅうい"ちょう (abbot, prior). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | prelaid (dignitary). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | elatepray prior (priest, prior), prelado, abade (abbe, abbot). (various references) preot (Canon, chaplain, clergyman, cleric, curate, devil-dodger, divine, father, incumbent, minister, padre, parson, pastor, pope, preacher, presbyter, priest, rector, Reverend, rook, vicar), prelat (dignitary, pontiff). (various references) прелат (dignitary). (various references) prelat. (various references) prelado. (various references) prelat. (various references) yüksek rütbeli papaz, baş rahip (pontiff). (various references) священик (cassock, chaplain, clergyman, curate, deacon, divine, josser, minister, parson, pope, priest), прелат (dignitary). (various references) giáo chủ, giám mục (pontiff). (various references) prelad. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | prelatus. (various references) |
| Medieval Latin | 700-1500 | prelatus. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "prelate": prelates. (additional references) | |
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"Prelate" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: grelette, Parellada, Parlato, Pelite, pellate, Pertelote, Phellatio, porcelite, preat, preaty, prefat, Pregaday, prelator, premate, Prevatte, prolate, purolite. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "prelate" (pronounced pre"lut or prē"lā't) |
| 4 | -e" l u t | appellate, helot, pellet, zealot. |
| 3 | -l u t | amulet, anklet, autopilot, ballot, billet, booklet, boomlet, bracelet, branchlet, bullet, Charlotte, chocolate, collet, consulate, copilot, desolate, droplet, emasculate, eyelet, Gantlet, gauntlet, giblet, goblet, gullet, hamlet, harlot, immaculate, inarticulate, inviolate, lancelet, leaflet, mallet, Merlot, Millet, mullet, omelet, palate, palette, pallet, pamphlet, particulate, piglet, pilot, platelet, quintuplet, scarlet, sextuplet, skillet, starlet, tablet, template, templet, toilet, triplet, ultraviolet, Violet, wallet. |
| 3 | -l ā' t | accumulate, adulate, angulate, annihilate, articulate, assimilate, boilerplate, breastplate, calculate, capitulate, circulate, coagulate, congratulate, contemplate, copulate, correlate, depopulate, distillate, ejaculate, electroplate, emulate, encapsulate, escalate, extrapolate, flagellate, formulate, gastrulate, inoculate, insulate, interpolate, isolate, lanceolate, legislate, manipulate, miscalculate, mutilate, nameplate, oscillate, overregulate, percolate, populate, postulate, recalculate, recapitulate, reformulate, regulate, reregulate, simulate, speculate, stimulate, stipulate, strangulate, tabulate, titillate, undulate, vacillate, ventilate. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: petrale, pleater, replate. | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-e-l-p-r-t" | |
-1 letter: elater, leaper, palter, pelter, petrel, plater, relate, repeal, repeat, retape. | |
-2 letters: alert, alter, apter, arete, artel, eater, elate, etape, laree, later, leapt, leper, lepta, paler, palet, parle, pater, pearl, peart, perea, petal, peter, plate, pleat, prate, ratel, relet, repel, taler, taper, telae, tepal. | |
-3 letters: alee, aper, earl, late, leap, lear, leer, leet, lept. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-e-l-p-r-t" | |
+1 letter: paltered, palterer, pearlite, petrales, pleaters, praelect, prelates, pterylae, replated, replates. | |
+2 letters: overleapt, palestrae, palterers, pearliest, pearlites, percolate, perpetual, plastered, plasterer, praelects, prebattle, prelature, pretravel, prevalent, repellant, replanted, replaster, replicate, reputable, saltpeter, telegraph. | |
+3 letters: altarpiece, carpellate, coleoptera, deportable, epicentral, exportable, extemporal, hyperalert, interplead, operculate, palaestrae, palletizer, parenteral, parentless, penetrable, penetralia, perceptual, percolated, percolates, perfoliate, periosteal, peritoneal, permutable, plaistered, planimeter, plasterers, platemaker, pleasanter, praelected, preethical, pregenital, prelatures, prevalents, psalteries, receptacle, repeatable, repeatedly, repellants, replasters, replicated, replicates, repopulate, reportable, saltpeters, separately, sphalerite, splattered, stepladder, streetlamp, telegraphs, telegraphy, temperable, terneplate, treponemal, wentletrap. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)50 72 65 6C 61 74 65 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).--. .-. . .-.. .- - . |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010000 01110010 01100101 01101100 01100001 01110100 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)P r e l a t e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0050 0072 0065 006C 0061 0074 0065 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)50847178678671 |
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