Word Meanings - PRESBYTERIAN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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.

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• WORSHIPFUL
  Entitled to worship, reverence, or high respect; claiming respect; worthy of honor; -- often used as a term of respect, sometimes ironically. "This is worshipful society." Shak. so dear and worshipful. Chaucer. -- Wor"ship*ful*ly, adv.
• CHURCHLINESS
  Regard for the church.
• 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
• CHURCHLIKE
  Befitting a church or a churchman; becoming to a clergyman. Shak.
• RELATIONSHIP
  The state of being related by kindred, affinity, or other alliance. Mason.
• DISCIPLINE
  1. To educate; to develop by instruction and exercise; to train. 2. To accustom to regular and systematic action; to bring under control so as to act systematically; to train to act together under orders; to teach subordination to; to form a habit
• WORSHIPABLE
  Capable of being worshiped; worthy of worship. Carlyle.
• PRESBYTERSHIP
  The office or station of a presbyter; presbyterate.
• CHURCH
  AS. circe, cyrice; akin to D. kerk, Icel. kirkja, Sw. kyrka, Dan. kirke, G. kirche, OHG. chirihha; all fr. Gr. ç'd4ra hero, Zend. çura 1. A building set apart for Christian worship. 2. A Jewish or heathen temple. Acts xix. 37. 3. A formally
• CHURCHYARD
  The ground adjoining a church, in which the dead are buried; a cemetery. Like graves in the holy churchyard. Shak. Syn. -- Burial place; burying ground; graveyard; necropolis; cemetery; God's acre.
• CHURCH-BENCH
  A seat in the porch of a church. Shak.
• THOSE
  The plural of that. See That.
• ECCLESIASTICALLY
  In an ecclesiastical manner; according ecclesiastical rules.
• CHURCH MODES
  The modes or scales used in ancient church music. See Gregorian.
• GOVERNORSHIP
  The office of a governor.
• DISCIPLINER
  One who disciplines.
• 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.
• CHURCHSHIP
  State of being a church. South.
• RELATIVELY
  In a relative manner; in relation or respect to something else; not absolutely. Consider the absolute affections of any being as it is in itself, before you consider it relatively. I. Watts.
• GOVERNABLENESS
  The quality of being governable; manageableness.
• PRELATIST
  One who supports of advocates prelacy, or the government of the church by prelates; hence, a high-churchman. Hume. I am an Episcopalian, but not a prelatist. T. Scott.
• INTERCOMMUNION
  Mutual communion; as, an intercommunion of deities. Faber.
• MISGOVERNED
  Ill governed, as a people; ill directed. "Rude, misgoverned hands." Shak.
• SPATHOSE
  See SPATHIC
• PRELATISM
  Prelacy; episcopacy.
• PRELATIZE
  To bring under the influence of prelacy. Palfrey.
• MISRELATION
  Erroneous relation or narration. Abp. Bramhall.
• MISWORSHIP
  Wrong or false worship; mistaken practices in religion. Bp. Hall. Such hideous jungle of misworships. Carlyle.
• UNGOVERNABLE
  Not governable; not capable of being governed, ruled, or restrained; licentious; wild; unbridled; as, ungovernable passions. -- Un*gov"ern*a*bly, adv. Goldsmith.
• MISGOVERNMENT
  Bad government; want of government. Shak.