Definitions for presbytery

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presbytery pres·by·ter·y

Spelling: [prez-bi-ter-ee, pres-]

IPA: /ˈprɛz bɪˌtɛr i, ˈprɛs-/

Presbytery is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 20 points.

You can make 257 anagrams from letters in presbytery (beeprrstyy).

Definitions for presbytery

noun

1. a body of presbyters or elders.
2. (in Presbyterian churches) an ecclesiastical court consisting of all the ministers and one or two presbyters from each congregation in a district.
3. the churches under the jurisdiction of a presbytery.
4. the part of a church appropriated to the clergy.
5. Roman Catholic Church. a rectory.

Origin of presbytery

1375-1425; late Middle English presbetory, presbitory priests' bench, for Late Latin presbyterium group of elders Greek presbytérion. See presbyter, Examples for presbytery

Turning to climb upwards to the presbytery, the girl met Denis Quirk.

From springtime until autumn the presbytery was redolent of mignonette.

One bay of its presbytery and two adjoining chapels have been spared.

The pavement of this presbytery is worthy of particular attention.

He recommended the appointment of an English bishop and a Scots' presbytery.

presbytery met in town that year, and all the big preachers in the state was there.

Prelacy, he knew, was but the King's choice for the nation: presbytery was the nation's choice for itself.

If St. Mary's Church were large and imposing, the presbytery was old and diminutive.

Such was the presbytery of Grey Town and its inmates in the days of which I am writing.

He was buried close to the presbytery, and his wife was, in 1409, buried next to him.