Prelate vs Predecessor - What's the difference?
prelate | predecessor |
A clergyman of high rank and authority, having jurisdiction over an area or a group of people; normally a bishop.
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(obsolete) To act as a prelate.
* Latimer
One who precedes; one who has preceded another in any state, position, office, etc.; one whom another follows or comes after, in any office or position.
A model or type of machinery or device which precedes the current one. Usually used to describe an earlier, outdated model.
(mathematics) A vertex having a directed path to another vertex
As a proper noun prelate
is a village in saskatchewan, canada.As a noun predecessor is
one who precedes; one who has preceded another in any state, position, office, etc; one whom another follows or comes after, in any office or position.prelate
English
(wikipedia prelate)Noun
(en noun)- Hear him but reason in divinity, / You would desire the king were made a prelate .
Derived terms
* prelateship * prelatess * prelatic * prelatical * prelatise * prelatist * prelatize * prelatryVerb
(prelat)- Right prelating is busy labouring, and not lording.
Anagrams
*predecessor
English
Alternative forms
* (archaic) * (qualifier) * predecessour (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)- The steam engine was the predecessor of diesel and electric locomotives.