prelate
pre lit
- n a senior clergyman and dignitary
- The Roman Catholic Church ranges from plain people to prelates.
- Another new Iron Curtain prelate is Karol Wojtyla, 47, of Cracow, a talented theologian whom the Vatican hopes may get along better with the Gomulka regime than does Warsaw's .
- Painting a prelate's portrait is not quite like painting an ordinary man, wrote Dutch Art Critic Jan Engelman in his Amsterdam newspaper last week.