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Probationer :: Probationer (n.) A student in divinity, who, having received certificates of good morals and qualifications from his university, is admitted to several trials by a presbytery, and, on acquitting himself well, is licensed to preach..

Presbytery :: Presbytery (n.) The residence of a priest or clergyman.

Communion :: Communion (n.) A body of Christians having one common faith and discipline; as, the Presbyterian communion..

Presbyter :: Presbyter (n.) One ordained to the second order in the ministry; -- called also priest.

Priest :: Priest (n.) A presbyter; one who belongs to the intermediate order between bishop and deacon. He is authorized to perform all ministerial services except those of ordination and confirmation.

Presbyter :: Presbyter (n.) A member of a presbytery whether lay or clerical.

Presbytership :: Presbytership (n.) The office or station of a presbyter; presbyterate.

Presbytery :: Presbytery (n.) That part of the church reserved for the officiating priest.

Presbyter :: Presbyter (n.) A Presbyterian.

Disciplinarian :: Disciplinarian (n.) A Puritan or Presbyterian; -- because of rigid adherence to religious or church discipline.

Presbyterate :: Presbyterate (n.) A presbytery; also, presbytership..

Seceder :: Seceder (n.) One of a numerous body of Presbyterians in Scotland who seceded from the communion of the Established Church, about the year 1733, and formed the Secession Church, so called..

Presbyter :: Presbyter (n.) An elder in the early Christian church. See 2d Citation under Bishop, n., 1..

Arian :: Arian (a.) Pertaining to Arius, a presbyter of the church of Alexandria, in the fourth century, or to the doctrines of Arius, who held Christ to be inferior to God the Father in nature and dignity, though the first and noblest of all created beings..

Priest :: Priest (n.) A presbyter elder; a ministe.

Bishopric :: Bishopric (n.) The office of a spiritual overseer, as of an apostle, bishop, or presbyter..

Presbyterianism :: Presbyterianism (n.) 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..

Institutor :: Institutor (n.) A presbyter appointed by the bishop to institute a rector or assistant minister over a parish church.

Archpresbytery :: Archpresbytery (n.) The absolute dominion of presbytery.

Presbyterium :: Presbyterium (n.) Same as Presbytery, 4..

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