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metropolitanate

noun

Etymology

From metropolitan + -ate (forms nouns denoting rank or office).

  1. derived from μητροπολίτης
  2. derived from metropolitanus
  3. formed as metropolitanate — “metropolitan + -ate”

Definitions

  1. The see of a metropolitan bishop.

    • that ascending ladder of ecclesiastical honours , the priorate , the abbacy , the bishopric , the metropolitanate , the cardinalate , and even that which was beyond and above all .

The neighborhood

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