prelateity

English

Noun

prelateity (uncountable)

1. (obsolete) prelacy
   • 1642 (indicated as 1641), John Milton, The Reason of Church-governement Urg’d against Prelaty […], London: […] E[dward] G[riffin] for Iohn Rothwell, […], →OCLC:

     Neither shall I stand to trifle with one that would tell me of quiddities and formalities , whether prelaty or prelateity

References

• “prelateity”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.