Word Meanings - PRESBYTERSHIP - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The office or station of a presbyter; presbyterate.

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• 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
• STATIONARINESS
  The quality or state of being stationary; fixity.
• OFFICEHOLDER
  An officer, particularly one in the civil service; a placeman.
• PRESBYTERSHIP
  The office or station of a presbyter; presbyterate.
• STATIONARY
  1. Not moving; not appearing to move; stable; fixed. Charles Wesley, who is a more stationary man, does not believe the story. Southey. 2. Not improving or getting worse; not growing wiser, greater, better, more excellent, or the contrary.
• STATIONAL
  Of or pertaining to a station.
• 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.
• STATIONER
  1. A bookseller or publisher; -- formerly so called from his occupying a stand, or station, in the market place or elsewhere. Dryden. 2. One who sells paper, pens, quills, inkstands, pencils, blank books, and other articles used in writing.
• OFFICE WIRE
  Copper wire with a strong but light insulation, used in wiring houses, etc.
• STATION
  The particular place, or kind of situation, in which a species naturally occurs; a habitat. (more info) 1. The act of standing; also, attitude or pose in standing; posture. A station like the herald, Mercury. Shak. Their manner was to stand at
• PRESBYTERATE
  A presbytery; also, presbytership. Heber.
• OFFICER
  Specifically, a commissioned officer, in distinction from a warrant officer. Field officer, General officer, etc. See under Field, General. etc. -- Officer of the day , the officer who, on a given day, has charge for that day of the quard,
• STATIONERY
  The articles usually sold by stationers, as paper, pens, ink, quills, blank books, etc.
• PRESBYTERIUM
  See 4
• PRESBYTERIAL
  Presbyterian. "Presbyterial government." Milton.
• PRESBYTERESS
  A female presbyter. Bale.
• OFFICE
  The apartments or outhouses in which the domestics discharge the duties attached to the service of a house, as kitchens, pantries, stables, etc. As for the offices, let them stand at distance. Bacon. (more info) 1. That which a person does, either
• 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.
• POST OFFICE
  See POST
• MENOSTATION
  See MENOSTASIS
• WEATHER STATION
  A station for taking meteorological observations, making weather forecasts, or disseminating such information. Such stations are of the first order when they make observations of all the important elements either hourly or by self-registering
• TORPEDO STATION
  A headquarters for torpedo vessels and their supplies, usually having facilities for repairs and for instruction and experiments. The principal torpedo station of the United States is at Newport,
• INCRUSTATION
  A covering or inlaying of marble, mosaic, etc., attached to the masonry by cramp irons or cement. (more info) 1. The act of incrusting, or the state of being incrusted. 2. A crust or hard coating of anything upon or within a body, as a deposit
• BOOKING OFFICE
  1. An office where passengers, baggage, etc., are registered for conveyance, as by railway or steamship. 2. An office where passage tickets are sold.
• CROWN OFFICE
  The criminal branch of the Court of King's or Queen's Bench, commonly called the crown side of the court, which takes cognizance of all criminal cases. Burrill.
• PANPRESBYTERIAN
  Belonging to, or representative of, those who hold Presbyterian views in all parts of the world; as, a Panpresbyterian council.
• INTERBASTATION
  Patchwork. Dr. J. Smith.
• CIRCUMGESTATION
  The act or process of carrying about. Circumgestation of the eucharist to be adored. Jer. Taylor.
• PROTESTATION
  Formerly, a declaration in common-law pleading, by which the party interposes an oblique allegation or denial of some fact, protesting that it does or does not exist, and at the same time avoiding a direct affirmation or denial. (more info) 1.
• CONTESTATION
  1. The act of contesting; emulation; rivalry; strife; dispute. "Loverlike contestation." Milton. After years spent in domestic, unsociable contestations, she found means to withdraw. Clarendon. 2. Proof by witness; attestation; testimony. A solemn
• UTEROGESTATION
  Gestation in the womb from conception to birth; pregnancy. Pritchard.