Word Meanings - PRESBYTERAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Of or pertaining to a presbyter or presbytery; presbyterial.

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• PRESBYTERY
  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
• PRESBYTERSHIP
  The office or station of a presbyter; presbyterate.
• PRESBYTERIANISM
  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.
• PRESBYTERATE
  A presbytery; also, presbytership. Heber.
• PERTAIN
  stretch out, reach, pertain; per + tenere to hold, keep. See Per-, 1. To belong; to have connection with, or dependence on, something, as an appurtenance, attribute, etc.; to appertain; as, saltness pertains to the ocean; flowers pertain to plant
• PRESBYTERIUM
  See 4
• PRESBYTERIAL
  Presbyterian. "Presbyterial government." Milton.
• PRESBYTERESS
  A female presbyter. Bale.
• PRESBYTER
  One ordained to the second order in the ministry; -- called also priest. I rather term the one sort presbyter than priest. Hooker. New presbyter is but old priest writ large. Milton. (more info) 1. An elder in the early Christian church. See 2d
• PRESBYTERIAN
  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.
• PRESBYTERAL
  Of or pertaining to a presbyter or presbytery; presbyterial.
• PANPRESBYTERIAN
  Belonging to, or representative of, those who hold Presbyterian views in all parts of the world; as, a Panpresbyterian council.
• ARCHPRESBYTER
  See ARCHPRIEST
• ARCHPRESBYTERY
  The absolute dominion of presbytery. Milton.
• APPERTAIN
  To belong or pertain, whether by right, nature, appointment, or custom; to relate. Things appertaining to this life. Hooker. Give it unto him to whom it appertaineth. Lev. vi. 5. (more info) appartenir, fr. L. appertinere; ad + pertinere to reach