n. [ Pref. arch- + prelate. ] An archbishop or other chief prelate. [ 1913 Webster ]
adj.
v. same as correlate. [ Rare ]
v. i.
Doctrine and worship correlate as theory and practice. Tylor. [ 1913 Webster ]
v. t. To put in relation with each other; to connect together by the disclosure of a mutual relation;
n. One who, or that which, stands in a reciprocal relation to something else, as father to son; a correlative. South. [ 1913 Webster ]
adj.
a. Having a mutual or reciprocal relation or parallelism; correlative. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. mutual or reciprocal relation or relatedness; interrelation.
a. Irrelative; unconnected. [ 1913 Webster ]
v. t. To relate inaccurately. [ 1913 Webster ]
v. i. To act as a prelate. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
Right prelating is busy laboring, and not lording. Latimer. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ F. prélat, LL. praelatus, fr. L. praelatus, used as p. p. of praeferre to prefer, but from a different root. See Elate. ] A clergyman of a superior order, as an archbishop or a bishop, having authority over the lower clergy; a dignitary of the church. [ 1913 Webster ]
☞ This word and the words derived from it are often used invidiously, in English ecclesiastical history, by dissenters, respecting the Established Church system. [ 1913 Webster ]
Hear him but reason in divinity, . . .
You would desire the king were made a prelate. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. Prelacy. [ Obs. ] Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. The office of a prelate. Harmar. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. A woman who is a prelate; the wife of a prelate. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]
v. t.
Abate your zealous haste, till morrow next again
Both light of heaven and strength of men relate. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]
This heavy act with heavy heart relate. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]
To relate one's self,
v. i.
All negative or privative words relate positive ideas. Locke. [ 1913 Webster ]
Reckoning by the years of their own consecration without relating to any imperial account. Fuller. [ 1913 Webster ]
p. p. & a.
n. The state or condition of being related; relationship; affinity. [ R. ] Emerson. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. One who relates or narrates. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. [ 1st pref. un- + prelate. ] Deposed from the office of prelate. [ 1913 Webster ]