[f. ARCH- 1.] Chief prelate; archbishop. Hence Archprelatic, -ical, a.
1594. Hooker, Eccl. Pol., V. (1617), 271. S. Basil … an Archprelate in the house of God.
1640. Bastwick, Ld. Bishops, viii. H ij b. Doe not Archprelates take place of Dukes, and Prelats of Lords?
1648. Milton, Observ. Art. Peace, Wks. 1851, 564. The late King himself, with Strafford, and that Arch-Prelat of Canterbury.
1851. Hawthorne, Twice-told T., II. xvi. 241. If this king and this arch-prelate have their will.
1651. Cleveland, On Abp. York, 14. A general Metropolitan, An Arch-Prelatique Presbyterian.
1882. Paxt. Hood, Cromwell, 232. Laud … that ridiculous old archprelatical absurdity.
