archprimate
English edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
archprimate (plural archprimates)
- The chief primate of a Christian church.
- 1642, John Milton, The Reason of Church Government, Urged Against Prelaty, Book I, Ch. VI:
- For the peace and good of the church is not terminated in the schismless estate of one or two kingdoms, but should be provided for by the joint consultation of all reformed Christendom, that all controversy may end in the final pronounce or canon of one archprimate or protestant pope.
References edit
- “archprimate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.