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Definition of Eldership
1. Noun. The office of elder.
Derivative terms: Elder
Definition of Eldership
1. n. The state of being older; seniority.
Definition of Eldership
1. Noun. Seniority; the state or condition of being older. ¹
2. Noun. The position or office of being an elder. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Eldership
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Eldership
Literary usage of Eldership
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1909)
"In Oct., 1830, six of these ministers met in Harrisburg and agreed to form a body
to be called the General eldership of the Church of God, ..."
2. History of All the Religious Denominations in the United States: Containing by Israel Daniel Rupp (1849)
"The General eldership shall meet every three years, during the first twenty years,
and every five years thereafter, at such time and place as shall be ..."
3. A History of the English Church During the Civil Wars and Under the by Ecole littéraire de Montréal, Charles Gill, William Arthur Shaw (1900)
"The composition of this committee is significant.1 Having settled the matter of
the jurisdiction of Debate as to the eldership, the Commons turned to the ..."
4. Appletons' Annual Cyclopaedia and Register of Important Events (1876)
"The triennial meeting of the General eldership of the Church of God in North America
... Kansas, and Missouri, and the German eldership, had chosen eighty ..."
5. The Methodist Review (1888)
"THE PRESIDING eldership. OUR " standards of doctrine " arc like the laws of the
Medea and Persians, but our ecclesiastical methods must be changeable. ..."
6. A History of the English Church During the Civil Wars and Under the by William Arthur Shaw (1900)
"Division of opinion concerning the jurisdiction of the congre gational eldership,
May, 1644. 11,, ; 29th April and two following days, and for the moment ..."
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