the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
n. The condition, dignity, of office of a cardinal.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
n. Same as cardinalate.
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n. the office of cardinal
Word Usage
"His canons and grand-vicars were good old men, rather vulgar like himself, walled up like him in this diocese, without exit to a cardinalship, and who resembled their bishop, with this difference, that they were finished and he was completed."