How To Use Priorship In A Sentence
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He resigned the priorship of Toledo at the command of Philip III who desired his presence at Madrid.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon
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Luis was advanced to one of the highest dignities of the Order, being invested by the Grand Master with the priorship of the kingdom of
Wolfert's Roost and Miscellanies
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[237] At least during the time of William Charteys priorship.
Bibliomania in the Middle Ages
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Refusing the abbacy of St. Etienne, Caen, and the grand-priorship of
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne
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During his priorship, the citizens were divided into two factions called the Neri and Bianchi, as bitterly opposed to each other as both had been to the Ghibellines.
Handbook of Universal Literature From the Best and Latest Authorities
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In the case of convents in university towns, especially Paris and the Roman Curia (Avignon, afterwards Rome) the nomination belonged to the general or the general chapter; and there appears to have been an unwritten law that at Cambridge, Louvain, and other universities the priorship should be filled by the bachelor who in the course of the year was to take his degree as Master in Divinity.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux
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In short, they very unceremoniously treat the Parisians who believe in Gargantua as ignorant simpletons and superstitious idiots, with whom are intermixed a few hypocrites, who pretend to believe in Gargantua, in order to obtain some convenient priorship in the abbey of Thélême.
A Philosophical Dictionary
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Alessandro Ceva, in the midst of his ministrations in the afflicted city, was called away to assume the priorship of the monastery of San Vito at Milan, and we find him writing from this place in 1599 to the Archbishop of Turin, begging him to ask Charles Emmanuel, Duke of Savoy, to make a solemn vow to God to found a Camaldolese hermitage, that the plague might be arrested.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux
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Walter Baldocke, a canon sometime in Dunstable, and by king Richard promoted to the priorship of Laund.
Chronicles (3 of 6): Historie of England (1 of 9) Henrie IV
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Calabrian house where St. Bruno had died; nine more were founded during his twenty-seven years 'priorship.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability
