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Prolate vs Prelate - What's the difference?

prolate | prelate |

As an adjective prolate

is elongated at the poles.

As a verb prolate

is (obsolete|transitive) to utter; to pronounce.

As a proper noun prelate is

a village in saskatchewan, canada.

prolate

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Elongated at the poles.
    • A cigar is a prolate spheroid.

    Antonyms

    * (l)

    See also

    * (l)

    Verb

    (prolat)
  • (obsolete) To utter; to pronounce.
  • * Ben Jonson
    • Prolate it right.
    ----

    prelate

    English

    (wikipedia prelate)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A clergyman of high rank and authority, having jurisdiction over an area or a group of people; normally a bishop.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Hear him but reason in divinity, / You would desire the king were made a prelate .
  • * '>citation

    • Derived terms

    * prelateship * prelatess * prelatic * prelatical * prelatise * prelatist * prelatize * prelatry

    Related terms

    * prelacy * prelatial * prelation * prelature * Personal Prelate * Opus Dei

    Verb

    (prelat)
  • (obsolete) To act as a prelate.
  • * Latimer
    • Right prelating is busy labouring, and not lording.

    Anagrams

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