"Presbyterial" is a word in ENGLISH

A body of Christian believers, holding the same creed, observing the same rites, and acknowledging the same ecclesiastical authority; a …

An ecclesiastical body or judicatory in certain churches, as the Reformed Dutch. It is intermediate between the consistory and the …

A body of Christians having one common faith and discipline; as, the Presbyterian communion.

Pertaining to a Presbyterian consistory; -- a contemptuous term of 17th century controversy.

An officer in Christian churches appointed to perform certain subordinate duties varying in different communions. In the Roman Catholic and …

A Puritan or Presbyterian; -- because of rigid adherence to religious or church discipline.

In the law relating to nuisances and similar matters, this term means noxious, causing annoyance, discomfort, or painful or disagreeable …

Belonging to, or representative of, those who hold Presbyterian views in all parts of the world; as, a Panpresbyterian council.

Lat. A shepherd. Applied to a minister of the Christian religion, who has charge of a congregation, hence called his …

A Presbyterian.

One who maintains the validity of ordination and government by presbyters; a member of the Presbyterian church.

Of or pertaining to a presbyter, or to ecclesiastical government by presbyters; relating to those who uphold church government by …

That form of church government which invests presbyters with all spiritual power, and admits no prelates over them; also, the …

The Presbyterian religion of polity.

One of a numerous body of Presbyterians in Scotland who seceded from the communion of the Established Church, about the …

A document containing a statement of religious doctrine, concocted at a conference of British and continental Protestant divines at Westminster, …

A Whig; -- a cant term applied in contempt to Scotch Presbyterians.