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prelated

prelated is the simple past and past participle of prelate.

Meaning of prelate

Verb

prelate (third-person singular simple present prelates, present participle prelating, simple past and past participle prelated)

  1. (intransitive) (obsolete) To act as a prelate.
    • 18 January 1549, Hugh Latimer, Sermon of the Plough
      Right prelating is busy labouring, and not lording.

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Questions about prelated

What is prelated the simple past and past participle of?
Prelated is the simple past and past participle of prelate.

Words near prelated in the dictionary

  1. prelapsarian
  2. prelarvae
  3. prelarval
  4. prelaryngeal
  5. prelate
  6. prelated
  7. prelatehood
  8. prelateity
  9. prelates
  10. prelateship
  11. prelateships

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Adapted from Wiktionary: prelated (page history and authors); prelate (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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