The Collaborative International Dictionary
Prelatical
Prelatic \Pre*lat"ic\, Prelatical \Pre*lat"ic*al\, a.
Of or pertaining to prelates or prelacy; as, prelatical
authority.
--Macaulay.
Usage examples of "prelatical".
Accustomed in all invectives to join the prelatical party with the Papists, the people immediately supposed this insurrection to be the result of their united counsels.
They thought, that had the bigoted religionists been able to get their heavenly charter recognized, the presbyters would soon become more dangerous to the magistrate than had ever been the prelatical clergy.