Thanks for using this online dictionary, we have been helping millions of people improve their use of the english language with its free online services. English definition of presbyter is as below...

Presbyterian :: Presbyterian (n.) One who maintains the validity of ordination and government by presbyters; a member of the Presbyterian church.

Disciplinarian :: Disciplinarian (n.) A Puritan or Presbyterian; -- because of rigid adherence to religious or church discipline.

Priest :: Priest (n.) A presbyter elder; a ministe.

Presbyter :: Presbyter (n.) A Presbyterian.

Bishopric :: Bishopric (n.) The office of a spiritual overseer, as of an apostle, bishop, or presbyter..

Presbyteral :: Presbyteral (a.) Of or pertaining to a presbyter or presbytery; presbyterial.

Institutor :: Institutor (n.) A presbyter appointed by the bishop to institute a rector or assistant minister over a parish church.

Sabellian :: Sabellian (n.) A follower of Sabellius, a presbyter of Ptolemais in the third century, who maintained that there is but one person in the Godhead, and that the Son and Holy Spirit are only different powers, operations, or offices of the one God the Father..

Presbytery :: Presbytery (n.) The Presbyterian religion of polity.

Communion :: Communion (n.) A body of Christians having one common faith and discipline; as, the Presbyterian communion..

Presbyter :: Presbyter (n.) An elder in the early Christian church. See 2d Citation under Bishop, n., 1..

Presbyterian :: Presbyterian (a.) Of or pertaining to a presbyter, or to ecclesiastical government by presbyters; relating to those who uphold church government by presbyters; also, to the doctrine, discipline, and worship of a communion so governed..

Whiggamore :: Whiggamore (n.) A Whig; -- a cant term applied in contempt to Scotch Presbyterians.

Presbyterianism :: Presbyterianism (n.) That form of church government which invests presbyters with all spiritual power, and admits no prelates over them; also, the faith and polity of the Presbyterian churches, taken collectively..

Seceder :: Seceder (n.) One of a numerous body of Presbyterians in Scotland who seceded from the communion of the Established Church, about the year 1733, and formed the Secession Church, so called..

Presbytery :: Presbytery (n.) The residence of a priest or clergyman.

Presbyterate :: Presbyterate (n.) A presbytery; also, presbytership..

Consistorian :: Consistorian (a.) Pertaining to a Presbyterian consistory; -- a contemptuous term of 17th century controversy.

Probationer :: Probationer (n.) A student in divinity, who, having received certificates of good morals and qualifications from his university, is admitted to several trials by a presbytery, and, on acquitting himself well, is licensed to preach..

Presbyter :: Presbyter (n.) One ordained to the second order in the ministry; -- called also priest.

Random Fonts

Most Popular