Definition of Presbyteries

1. Noun. (plural of presbytery) ¹

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Definition of Presbyteries

1. presbytery [n] - See also: presbytery

Lexicographical Neighbors of Presbyteries

presbyopes
presbyopia
presbyopias
presbyopic
presbyopics
presbypropria
presbyte
presbyter
presbyteral
presbyterate
presbyterates
presbyteress
presbyterial
presbyterially
presbyterials
presbyteries (current term)
presbyters
presbytership
presbyterships
presbytery
presbytia
presbytism
prescale
prescaled
prescales
prescaling
prescan
prescandal
prescanned
prescanning

Literary usage of Presbyteries

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Appletons' Annual Cyclopædia and Register of Important Events of the Year (1891)
"Of the 13:3 presbyteries that answered the first question in the affirmative, 160 had expressly said that they desired no revision that impaired the ..."

2. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1911)
"The moderators of the presbyteries are at present almost universally appointed by rotation and their term of office is, as a rule, half a year. ..."

3. A Biographical Dictionary of Eminent Scotsmen by Robert Chambers, Thomas Thomson (1870)
"The case came before the assembly in 1752; and it was justly anticipated that it would bring to an issue the conflict between recusant presbyteries, ..."

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