Definition of elder

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Elder (a.) An aged person; one who lived at an earlier period; a predecessor.

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Welder :: Welder (n.) One who welds, or wields..
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.
Senior :: Senior (a.) More advanced than another in age; prior in age; elder; hence, more advanced in dignity, rank, or office; superior; as, senior member; senior counsel..
Elder :: Elder (a.) One who is older; a superior in age; a senior.
Sire :: Sire (n.) A tittle of respect formerly used in speaking to elders and superiors, but now only in addressing a sovereign..
Diselder :: Diselder (v. t.) To deprive of an elder or elders, or of the office of an elder..
Eldest :: Eldest (a.) Born or living first, or before the others, as a son, daughter, brother, etc.; first in origin. See Elder..
Yielder :: Yielder (n.) One who yields.
Wallwort :: Wallwort (n.) The dwarf elder, or danewort (Sambucus Ebulus)..
Eldern :: Eldern (a.) Made of elder.
Methodist :: Methodist (a.) Of or pertaining to the sect of Methodists; as, Methodist hymns; a Methodist elder..
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..
"""cover-point " :: Cover-point (n.) The fielder in the games of cricket and lacrosse who supports point..
Elder :: Elder (a.) Born before another; prior in years; senior; earlier; older; as, his elder brother died in infancy; -- opposed to younger, and now commonly applied to a son, daughter, child, brother, etc..
Legitimist :: Legitimist (n.) Specifically, a supporter of the claims of the elder branch of the Bourbon dynasty to the crown of France..
Gatten Tree :: Gatten tree () A name given to the small trees called guelder-rose (Viburnum Opulus), cornel (Cornus sanguinea), and spindle tree (Euonymus Europaeus)..
Eldership :: Eldership (n.) The state of being older; seniority.
Leg :: Leg (n.) A fielder whose position is on the outside, a little in rear of the batter..
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