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eldership|ˈɛldəʃɪp|
[f. elder a. and n.3 + -ship.]
1. The position of being elder or senior; seniority, precedence of birth, primogeniture.
1549R. Parsons Confer. Success. i. vi. 128 Primogenitura or eldership of birth..was greatly respected by God. 1667Dryden Ind. Emperor i. ii, My claim to her by Eldership I prove. 1754Richardson Grandison I. v. 19 Her sister addressed her always by the word Child, with an air of eldership. 1838Arnold Hist. Rome I. 274 [By Roman law] all children..inherited their father's estate in equal portions, without distinction of sex or eldership.
2. nonce-use. As a mock title of honour (after lordship): The personality of an elderly person.
1748Richardson Clarissa (1811) IV. 90 So irresistible to their elderships to be flattered.
3. The office or position of elder in a church.
1577Harrison England ii. v. (1877) i. 109 The office of eldership is equallie distributed betweene the bishop and the minister. 1655Fuller Ch. Hist. ix. vi. §52 He was deposed from his Eldership.
4. The collective body of (ecclesiastical) elders; a body or court of elders, a presbytery.
1557N. T. (Genev.) 1 Tim. iv. 14 That gyft..which was geuen thee by prophecie with the laying on of the handes, by the Eldership. 1634–46Row Hist. Kirk (1824) 66 They that tyrannize not over, but be subject to their particulare elderships. 1721Wodrow Corr. (1843) II. 568 Do you not lay in one scale the minister against the whole eldership in the other? 1828E. Irving Last Days 151 As office-bearers in the church we are an unholy and an unworthy eldership. 1885Edgar Old Ch. Life Scotl. 189 All the courts of the Church might be called either Presbyteries or Elderships. |