• (RP, America) IPA: /ˈpɹɛlət/

prelate (plural prelates)

1. A clergyman of high rank and authority, having jurisdiction over an area or a group of people; normally a bishop.
   • 1599, William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358 ↗, [Act I, scene i]:

     Hear him but reason in divinity, […] / You would desire the king were made a prelate.

• Opus Dei
• Personal Prelate
• prelacy
• prelatial
• prelation
• prelature
• prefer
• preferred
• preference

• French: prélat
• German: Prälat
• Italian: prelato
• Portuguese: prelado
• Russian: прела́т
• Spanish: prelado

prelate (prelates, present participle prelating; past and past participle prelated)

1. (obsolete) To act as a prelate.

   • Right prelating is busy labouring, and not lording.

1. A village in Saskatchewan, Canada.