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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..

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

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..

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.

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

Presbyteries :: Presbyteries (pl. ) of Presbyter.

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..

Presbytery :: Presbytery (n.) The Presbyterian religion of polity.

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

Classis :: Classis (n.) An ecclesiastical body or judicatory in certain churches, as the Reformed Dutch. It is intermediate between the consistory and the synod, and corresponds to the presbytery in the Presbyterian church..

Presbyterial :: Presbyterial (a.) Presbyterian.

Prester :: Prester (n.) A priest or presbyter; as, Prester John..

Presbyter :: Presbyter (n.) A Presbyterian.

Whiggamore :: Whiggamore (n.) A Whig; -- a cant term applied in contempt to Scotch Presbyterians.

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

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..

Presbyteress :: Presbyteress (n.) A female presbyter.

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

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