Definition of elder

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Elder (a.) A clergyman authorized to administer all the sacraments; as, a traveling elder..

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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..
Dame :: Dame (n.) A woman in general, esp. an elderly woman..
Priest :: Priest (n.) A presbyter elder; a ministe.
Welder :: Welder (n.) A manager; an actual occupant.
Methodist :: Methodist (a.) Of or pertaining to the sect of Methodists; as, Methodist hymns; a Methodist elder..
Legitimist :: Legitimist (n.) Specifically, a supporter of the claims of the elder branch of the Bourbon dynasty to the crown of France..
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..
Patriarch :: Patriarch (n.) A venerable old man; an elder. Also used figuratively.
Field :: Field (v. t.) To catch, stop, throw, etc. (the ball), as a fielder..
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..
Skelder :: Skelder (n.) A vagrant; a cheat.
Madam :: Madam (n.) A gentlewoman; -- an appellation or courteous form of address given to a lady, especially an elderly or a married lady; -- much used in the address, at the beginning of a letter, to a woman. The corresponding word in addressing a man is Sir..
Elderish :: Elderish (a.) Somewhat old; elderly.
Skelder :: Skelder (v. t. & i.) To deceive; to cheat; to trick.
Skilder :: Skilder (v. i.) To beg; to pilfer; to skelder.
Presbytery :: Presbytery (n.) A body of elders in the early Christian church.
Fielder :: Fielder (n.) A ball payer who stands out in the field to catch or stop balls.
Elder :: Elder (a.) A clergyman authorized to administer all the sacraments; as, a traveling elder..
Diselder :: Diselder (v. t.) To deprive of an elder or elders, or of the office of an 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..
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