English Dictionary

prelaty

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈpɹɛləti/

名詞

歴史的 不可算名詞

(now historical) The system of ecclesiastic governance by prelates or bishops; episcopacy, prelacy.

日本語の意味

高位聖職者（司教・大司教等）による教会統治制度、すなわち『司教制度』。 / 同様に、教会の統治形態を指す『主教制度』や『前聖職制度』と解釈される。

The medieval council debated whether prelaty should be subordinated to royal authority.

中世の評議会は、高位聖職者による教会統治の制度を王権の支配下に置くべきかどうかを議論した。

意味（1）

(now historical) The system of ecclesiastic governance by prelates or bishops; episcopacy, prelacy.

That those evills of Prelaty which before from five or six and twenty Sees were distributivly charg'd upon the whole people, will now light wholly upon learning, is not obscure to us […]