Definition of elder

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Elder (a.) Older; more aged, or existing longer..

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Welder :: Welder (n.) One who welds, or unites pieces of iron, etc., by welding..
Sir :: Sir (n.) A respectful title, used in addressing a man, without being prefixed to his name; -- used especially in speaking to elders or superiors; sometimes, also, used in the way of emphatic formality..
Skilder :: Skilder (v. i.) To beg; to pilfer; to skelder.
Eldership :: Eldership (n.) The state of being older; seniority.
Fielding :: Fielding (n.) The act of playing as a fielder.
Elder :: Elder (a.) One who is older; a superior in age; a senior.
Saturn :: Saturn (n.) One of the elder and principal deities, the son of Coelus and Terra (Heaven and Earth), and the father of Jupiter. The corresponding Greek divinity was Kro`nos, later CHro`nos, Time..
Venerate :: Venerate (v. t.) To regard with reverential respect; to honor with mingled respect and awe; to reverence; to revere; as, we venerate parents and elders..
Guelderrose'' :: Guelderrose' (n.) A cultivated variety of a species of Viburnum (V. Opulus), bearing large bunches of white flowers; -- called also snowball tree..
Elder :: Elder (a.) A clergyman authorized to administer all the sacraments; as, a traveling elder..
Eldership :: Eldership (n.) Office of an elder; collectively, a body of elders..
Elder :: Elder (n.) A genus of shrubs (Sambucus) having broad umbels of white flowers, and small black or red berries..
Viburnum :: Viburnum (n.) A genus of shrubs having opposite, petiolate leaves and cymose flowers, several species of which are cultivated as ornamental, as the laurestine and the guelder-rose..
Yielder :: Yielder (n.) One who yields.
Sambucus :: Sambucus (n.) A genus of shrubs and trees; the elder.
Point :: Point (n.) A fielder who is stationed on the off side, about twelve or fifteen yards from, and a little in advance of, the batsman..
Ancient :: Ancient (n.) A senior; an elder; a predecessor.
Senate :: Senate (n.) A body of elders appointed or elected from among the nobles of the nation, and having supreme legislative authority..
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..
Patriarch :: Patriarch (n.) A venerable old man; an elder. Also used figuratively.
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