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presbyter

[ prez-bi-ter, pres- ]

noun

  1. (in the early Christian church) an office bearer who exercised teaching, priestly, and administrative functions.
  2. (in hierarchical churches) a priest.
  3. an elder in a Presbyterian church.


presbyter

/ 藞辫谤蓻锄产瑟迟蓹 /

noun

    1. an elder of a congregation in the early Christian Church
    2. (in some Churches having episcopal politics) an official who is subordinate to a bishop and has administrative, teaching, and sacerdotal functions
  1. (in some hierarchical Churches) another name for priest
  2. in the Presbyterian Church
    1. a teaching elder
    2. a ruling elder
鈥淐ollins English Dictionary 鈥 Complete & Unabridged鈥 2012 Digital Edition 漏 William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 漏 HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Other 亚洲网紅露点 Forms

  • 辫谤别蝉路产测迟路别谤路补濒 [prez-, bit, -er-, uh, l, pres-], adjective
  • 苍辞苍路辫谤别蝉顎僢测路迟别谤 noun
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of presbyter1

1590鈥1600; < Late Latin, noun use of the adj.: older < Greek 辫谤别蝉产媒迟别谤辞蝉, equivalent to 辫谤茅蝉产测 ( s ) old + -teros comparative suffix
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of presbyter1

C16: from Late Latin, from Greek presbuteros an older man, from presbus old man
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Example Sentences

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The Latin would have been 鈥減resbyter鈥 鈥 an elder 鈥 the word that would in later centuries give us both 鈥減riest鈥 and 鈥淧resbyterian.鈥

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鈥淥ne of the things our commission is doing is deciding how to move forward on each of those properties,鈥 said the Rev. Alan Thames, executive presbyter of the Whitewater Valley Presbytery.

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The writer is a general presbyter for the National Capital Presbytery.

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The writer is general presbyter of the National Capital Presbytery.

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Gatiss says women "rightly had an honoured role within the early Church" but that nothing in Romans 16 suggests that the women Paul names had the authority of bishops or presbyters/elders.

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