Word Meanings - PRESBYTERESS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A female presbyter. Bale.

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• FEMALE
  A plant which produces only that kind of reproductive organs which are capable of developing into fruit after impregnation or fertilization; a pistillate plant. (more info) 1. An individual of the sex which conceives and brings forth young, or
• 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
• PRESBYTERSHIP
  The office or station of a presbyter; presbyterate.
• 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.
• PRESBYTERATE
  A presbytery; also, presbytership. Heber.
• FEMALE FERN
  a common species of fern with large decompound fronds , growing in many countries; lady fern. Note: The names male fern and female fern were anciently given to two common ferns; but it is now understood that neither has any sexual character. Syn.
• PRESBYTERIUM
  See 4
• PRESBYTERIAL
  Presbyterian. "Presbyterial government." Milton.
• PRESBYTERESS
  A female presbyter. Bale.
• PRESBYTER
  One ordained to the second order in the ministry; -- called also priest. I rather term the one sort presbyter than priest. Hooker. New presbyter is but old priest writ large. Milton. (more info) 1. An elder in the early Christian church. See 2d
• PRESBYTERIAN
  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.
• PRESBYTERAL
  Of or pertaining to a presbyter or presbytery; presbyterial.
• FEMALE RHYMES
  double rhymes, or rhymes (called in French feminine rhymes because they end in e weak, or feminine) in which two syllables, an accented and an unaccented one, correspond at the end of each line. Note: A rhyme, in which the final syllables only agree
• PANPRESBYTERIAN
  Belonging to, or representative of, those who hold Presbyterian views in all parts of the world; as, a Panpresbyterian council.
• ARCHPRESBYTER
  See ARCHPRIEST
• ARCHPRESBYTERY
  The absolute dominion of presbytery. Milton.