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

Presbyter :: Presbyter (n.) A Presbyterian.

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

Deacon :: Deacon (n.) An officer in Christian churches appointed to perform certain subordinate duties varying in different communions. In the Roman Catholic and Episcopal churches, a person admitted to the lowest order in the ministry, subordinate to the bishops and priests. In Presbyterian churches, he is subordinate to the minister and elders, and has charge of certain duties connected with the communion service and the care of the poor. In Congregational churches, he is subordinate to the pastor, and

Church :: Church (n.) A body of Christian believers, holding the same creed, observing the same rites, and acknowledging the same ecclesiastical authority; a denomination; as, the Roman Catholic church; the Presbyterian church..

Presbytery :: Presbytery (n.) A judicatory consisting of all the ministers within a certain district, and one layman, who is a ruling elder, from each parish or church, commissioned to represent the church in conjunction with the pastor. This body has a general jurisdiction over the churches under its care, and next below the provincial synod in authority..

Presbyterium :: Presbyterium (n.) Same as Presbytery, 4..

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..

Presbytership :: Presbytership (n.) The office or station of a presbyter; presbyterate.

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

Presbyter :: Presbyter (n.) A member of a presbytery whether lay or clerical.

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

Arian :: Arian (a.) Pertaining to Arius, a presbyter of the church of Alexandria, in the fourth century, or to the doctrines of Arius, who held Christ to be inferior to God the Father in nature and dignity, though the first and noblest of all created beings..

Atherine :: Atherine (n.) A small marine fish of the family Atherinidae, having a silvery stripe along the sides. The European species (Atherina presbyter) is used as food. The American species (Menidia notata) is called silversides and sand smelt. See Silversides..

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

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

Archpresbytery :: Archpresbytery (n.) The absolute dominion of presbytery.

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..

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

Presbytery :: Presbytery (n.) A body of elders in the early Christian church.

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