presbyter
/prez-bi-ter, pres-/US // ˈprɛz bɪ tər, ˈprɛs- //UK // (ˈprɛzbɪtə) //
长老,长者,长老会,长老会主席
Definitions
n.名词 noun
- 1
- : an office bearer who exercised teaching, priestly, and administrative functions.
- : a priest.
- : an elder in a Presbyterian church.
Examples
The larger cubiculum has two tufa seats at the side, and one more elevated for the presiding presbyter.
The altar, probably a small movable one of wood, if any at all, must have stood before the presbyter.
There was no priest (cohen); the presbyter was the "elder," nothing more.
Twelve miles off lived a presbyter, with whom, in mesmerist phraseology, he was en rapport.
If they were written by a writer named John, it was probably John the Presbyter, who lived in the second century.
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