"Presbyterial" is a word in ENGLISH
Presbyterian.
[Tolstoy] does not necessarily get rid of [his angry] temperament by undergoing religious conversion, and indeed it is obvious that the illusion of having been reborn may allow one's native vices to flourish more freely than ever, though perhaps in subtler forms.
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A man is flying in a hot air balloon and realizes he is lost. He reduces his altitude and spots a man down below. He lowers the balloon further and shouts: "Excuse me, can you tell me where I am?"The man below says: "Yes, you're in a hot air balloon, hovering 30 feet above this field.""You must work in Technical Support," says the balloonist."I do," replies the man. "How did you know?""Well" says the balloonist, "everything you have told me is technically correct, but completely useless."The man below says: "You must be in management.""I am," replies the balloonist, "but how did you know?""Well", says the man, "you don't know where you are, or where you're going, but you expect me to be able to help. You're still in the same position you were before we met, but now it's my fault."
A body of Christian believers, holding the same creed, observing the same rites, and acknowledging the same ecclesiastical authority; a …
Read the complete definitionAn ecclesiastical body or judicatory in certain churches, as the Reformed Dutch. It is intermediate between the consistory and the …
Read the complete definitionA body of Christians having one common faith and discipline; as, the Presbyterian communion.
Read the complete definitionPertaining to a Presbyterian consistory; -- a contemptuous term of 17th century controversy.
Read the complete definitionAn officer in Christian churches appointed to perform certain subordinate duties varying in different communions. In the Roman Catholic and …
Read the complete definitionA Puritan or Presbyterian; -- because of rigid adherence to religious or church discipline.
Read the complete definitionIn the law relating to nuisances and similar matters, this term means noxious, causing annoyance, discomfort, or painful or disagreeable …
Read the complete definitionBelonging to, or representative of, those who hold Presbyterian views in all parts of the world; as, a Panpresbyterian council.
Read the complete definitionLat. A shepherd. Applied to a minister of the Christian religion, who has charge of a congregation, hence called his …
Read the complete definitionA Presbyterian.
Read the complete definitionOne who maintains the validity of ordination and government by presbyters; a member of the Presbyterian church.
Read the complete definitionOf or pertaining to a presbyter, or to ecclesiastical government by presbyters; relating to those who uphold church government by …
Read the complete definitionThat form of church government which invests presbyters with all spiritual power, and admits no prelates over them; also, the …
Read the complete definitionThe Presbyterian religion of polity.
Read the complete definitionOne of a numerous body of Presbyterians in Scotland who seceded from the communion of the Established Church, about the …
Read the complete definitionA document containing a statement of religious doctrine, concocted at a conference of British and continental Protestant divines at Westminster, …
Read the complete definitionA Whig; -- a cant term applied in contempt to Scotch Presbyterians.
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