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Definition of Priorates
1. priorate [n] - See also: priorate
Lexicographical Neighbors of Priorates
Literary usage of Priorates
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"In this instrument we find the right of nomination guaranteed to the kings of
France for consistorial benefices, bishoprics, abbacies, and priorates; ..."
2. The Philippine Islands, 1493-1803: Explorations by Early Navigators by Emma Helen Blair, James Alexander Robertson, Edward Gaylord Bourne (1905)
"He held excellent priorates in Pampanga, and before these held some in Ilocos,
... He has held priorates, and has lived up to the measure of his strength. ..."
3. The Philippine Islands, 1493-1803: Explorations by Early Navigators by Emma Helen Blair, James Alexander Robertson, Edward Gaylord Bourne (1905)
"He held excellent priorates in Pampanga, and before these held some in Ilocos,
... He has held priorates, and has lived up to the measure of his strength. ..."
4. The Truth about Spain by G. H. B. Ward (1913)
"The four military Orders were allowed to form a number of priorates under ...
In arranging'these priorates, the Orders did not relinquish others which they ..."
5. The Christian World: The Magazine of the American and Foreign Christian Union by American and Foreign Christian Union (1856)
"... generally sold its priorates, and other valuable offices of the convent, to
the highest bidder. The Priorato often brought him from one to two thousand ..."
6. The Orders of Knighthood, British and Foreign, with a Brief Review of the by Sourindro Mohun Tagore (1884)
"At present, it is united with the Russian priorates, and the whole is now divided
into two Grand priorates, for the Knights of the Greek and those of the ..."
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