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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

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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. 3. The Presbyterian religion of polity. Tatler. That part of the church reserved for the officiating priest. The residence of a priest or clergyman. Gwilt. (more info) 1. A body of elders in the early Christian church.

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  • CHURCHLINESS
    Regard for the church.
  • CHURCHLIKE
    Befitting a church or a churchman; becoming to a clergyman. Shak.
  • CONSISTENTLY
    In a consistent manner.
  • ELDERLY
    Somewhat old; advanced beyond middle age; bordering on old age; as, elderly people.
  • PASTORALLY
    1. In a pastoral or rural manner. 2. In the manner of a pastor.
  • REPRESENTABLE
    Capable of being represented.
  • GENERALIZED
    Comprising structural characters which are separated in more specialized forms; synthetic; as, a generalized type.
  • GENERALIZABLE
    Capable of being generalized, or reduced to a general form of statement, or brought under a general rule. Extreme cases are . . . not generalizable. Coleridge
  • PASTORSHIP
    Pastorate. Bp. Bull.
  • 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
  • REPRESENTANT
    Appearing or acting for another; representing.
  • 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.
  • CONSIST
    1. To stand firm; to be in a fixed or permanent state, as a body composed of parts in union or connection; to hold together; to be; to exist; to subsist; to be supported and maintained. He is before all things, and by him all things consist. Col.
  • CHURCH MODES
    The modes or scales used in ancient church music. See Gregorian.
  • CONSISTORIAN
    Pertaining to a Presbyterian consistory; -- a contemptuous term of 17th century controversy. You fall next on the consistorian schismatics; for so you call Presbyterians. Milton.
  • PASTORLESS
    Having no pastor.
  • GENERALTY
    Generality. Sir M. Hale.
  • PASTORLY
    Appropriate to a pastor. Milton.
  • COMMISSIONAIRE
    1. One intrusted with a commission, now only a small commission, as an errand; esp., an attendant or subordinate employee in a public office, hotel, or the like. The commissionaire familiar to European travelers performs miscellaneous services
  • MAJOR GENERAL
    . An officer of the army holding a rank next above that of brigadier general and next below that of lieutenant general, and who usually commands a division or a corps.
  • OVERRULING
    Exerting controlling power; as, an overruling Providence. -- O`ver*rul"ing*ly, adv.
  • FERULIC
    Pertaining to, or derived from, asafetida ; as, ferulic acid.
  • CHONDRULE
    A peculiar rounded granule of some mineral, usually enstatite or chrysolite, found imdedded more or less aboundantly in the mass of many meteoric stones, which are hence called chondrites.
  • ASCERTAINMENT
    The act of ascertaining; a reducing to certainty; a finding out by investigation; discovery. The positive ascertainment of its limits. Burke.
  • ASCERTAINABLE
    That may be ascertained. -- As`cer*tain"a*ble*ness, n. -- As`cer*tain"a*bly, adv.
  • PURULENCE; PURULENCY
    The quality or state of being purulent; the generation of pus; also, the pus itself. Arbuthnot.
  • TORULA
    A chain of special bacteria. A genus of budding fungi. Same as Saccharomyces. Also used adjectively.
  • SERRULATION
    1. The state of being notched minutely, like a fine saw. Wright. 2. One of the teeth in a serrulate margin.
  • REDISTRICT
    To divide into new districts.
  • VIRULENCE; VIRULENCY
    1. The quality or state of being virulent or venomous; poisonousness; malignancy. 2. Extreme bitterness or malignity of disposition. "Refuted without satirical virulency." Barrow. The virulence of one declaimer, or the profundities and sublimities

 

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