Crossword clues for cardinalate
cardinalate
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cardinalate \Car"di*nal*ate\, n. [Cf. F. cardinalat, LL. cardinalatus.] The office, rank, or dignity of a cardinal.
Wiktionary
n. 1 The dignity and ecclestiastic office of Roman Catholic cardinal. 2 Collective term for the cardinals.
WordNet
n. cardinals collectively
Usage examples of "cardinalate".
We shall be putting into Stornaway some time after midnight and I have documents still to prepare for the Hebridean Cardinalate.
The pope heaped attentions upon Rospigliosi and Spada, conferred upon them the insignia of the cardinalate, and induced them to arrange their affairs and take up their residence at Rome.
Savonarola had then written to kings, statesmen and churchmen all over Europe urging that a council be called to purge the Borgia, and to institute sweeping reforms that would rid the Church of simony, the purchase not only of cardinalates but of the papacy itself.