† metropolitic, a. Obs.
[ad. med.L. mētropolīticus, f. mētropolīta (see metropolite).]
= next.
| 1555 Ridley in Coverdale Lett. Martyrs (1564) 93 Farewell the cathedrall churche of Caunterburye, the Metropoliticke sea. 1612 Selden Illustr. Drayton's Poly-olb. xviii. 303 Canterbury [was] then honor'd with the Metropolitique See. |