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English
Etymology
From prelate + -ist.
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Noun
prelatist (plural prelatists)
- One who advocates or supports prelacy, or the government of the church by prelates.
1757, David Hume, “[Charles II.] Chapter I.”, in The History of Great Britain, under the House of Stuart, 2nd edition, volume II, London: A Millar, , published 1759, →OCLC, page 142:The partizans of a comprehenſion ſaid, that the Preſbyterians as well as the Prelatiſts, having felt by experience the fatal effects of mutual obſtinacy and violence, were now well diſpoſed towards an amicable agreement; […]
1814 July 7, [Walter Scott], chapter XXXVI, in Waverley; or, ’Tis Sixty Years Since. , volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: James Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, →OCLC:[…] ‘Tobit and his dog baith are altogether heathenish and apocryphal, and none but a prelatist or a papist would draw them into question. I doubt I hae been mista'en in you, friend.’
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