Definition of "prelatist"

prelatist

/ˈpɹɛlətɪst/

noun
plural prelatists
1. One who advocates or supports prelacy, or the government of the church by prelates.
  Quotations
  The partizans of a comprehenſion ſaid, that the Preſbyterians as well as the Prelatiſts, having felt by experience the fatal effects of mutual obſtinacy and violence, were now well diſpoſed towards an amicable agreement; […]
  1757, David Hume, “[Charles II.] Chapter I.”, in The History of Great Britain, under the House of Stuart, 2nd edition, volume II, London: […] A[ndrew] Millar, […], published 1759, page 142
  […] ‘Tobit and his dog baith are altogether heathenish and apocryphal, and none but a prelatist or a papist would draw them into question. I doubt I hae been mista'en in you, friend.’
  1814 July 7, [Walter Scott], chapter XXXVI, in Waverley; […], volumes (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown