Obs. [f. on L. type *cardinālitās: see -ITY.] Condition of a cardinal; cardinalate.
1525. Ld. Berners, Froiss., II. cxcvi. [cxcii.] 605. All his Cardynalles to be putte out of their Cardynalyties.
1616. Brent, trans. Sarpi’s Counc. Trent (1676), 615. The Archbishop of Otranto, and others, who aimed at the Cardinality.
