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Definition of Presbyteries
1. presbytery [n] - See also: presbytery
Lexicographical Neighbors of Presbyteries
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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