Cardinalate sb.

[a. F. cardinalat (It. cardinalato), ad. med.L. cardinālātus; see -ATE¹.] The office or dignity of a cardinal; the rank of a cardinal church.

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1645. Evelyn, Mem. (1857), I. 170. Bearing also the title of a Cardinalate.

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1716. Pope, Lett. to Swift, 20 June. I have not the least hopes of the Cardinalat.

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1839. G. P. R. James, Louis XIV., II. 105. The refusal … to nominate De Retz to the Cardinalate.

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