Relating to or characteristic of archprelates or their highest-ranking church authority; of supreme ecclesiastical rank.
Arch- plus prelatic (meaning relating to prelates). This adjective form allowed description of things associated with the most powerful church officials.
When a medieval text described someone's 'archprelatic authority,' it meant they wielded the absolute power of the highest church office—like saying 'papal-level authority.'
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