Prelacy

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PRE'LACY, n. [from prelate.] The office or dignity of a prelate.
Prelacies may be termed the greater benefices.
1. Episcopacy; the order of bishops.
How many are there that call themselves protestants, who put prelacy and popery together as terms convertible?
2. Bishops, collectively.
Divers of the reverend prelacy.

prelacy appears in definitions for these words:
Antiprelatical Prelacy Prelatic Prelatism Prelatist Prelaty

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