单词 | presbyteress |
释义 | presbyteressn. 1. The wife of a presbyter or priest. Now historical. ΘΚΠ society > faith > church government > member of the clergy > priest > [noun] > priest's wife presbyteress1546 priestess1709 1546 J. Bale Actes Eng. Votaryes: 1st Pt. f. 71 Marianus sayth, she was a presbyteresse or a prestes leman, to saue the honoure of that ordre, bycause he was a monke hys selfe. 1699 T. Comber Disc. Consecrating 211 So it was in Germany long after, where the Priests Wife had the title of Presbyteress, as these words of Aventinus shew..called by the honourable name of Presbyteresses. 1972 Church Hist. 41 157 Even a special blessing was included..for the wives of married men on the day of their husband's ordination in the sixth century. These women were called presbyteresses (presbyterissae). 2. A female presbyter; spec. a member of an order of women in the early Church, having some of the functions of presbyters. ΘΚΠ society > faith > church government > member of the clergy > priest > kinds of priest > [noun] > female priest nuneOE priestress?a1439 priestc1440 priestess1594 presbyteress1651 society > faith > church government > laity > lay functionaries > elder > [noun] > female presbyteress1651 1651 Bp. J. Taylor Clerus Domini 15 The Presbyteresses who were the..governesses of women, in order to manners and religion. 1682 Weekly Memorials for Ingenious (Faithorne & Kersey) 11 Dec. 342 To enquire into the Quality of these Presbyteresses of the Primitive Church. a1837 S. Burder Pious Women in A. Stevens Women of Methodism (1866) 57 In the Apostolic age she would have been a Priscilla, and have taken her rank among the presbyteresses, or female confessors of the primitive Church. 1860 E. Washburn Hist. Sketches Town of Leicester iii. 203 Mention is also made in the N.T. of diaconesses and presbyteresses to whom was committed the care of the sick and the instruction of young persons of their own sex. 1901 J. Wordsworth Ministry of Grace v. 271 The Virgins, Widows and Presbyteresses have the first place among the women in church. 1957 P. Carrington Early Christian Church I. xxi. 396 He sees a ‘presbyteress’ or venerable lady, in shining garments, seated on a great white throne. 1994 Jrnl. Black Stud. 24 348 His mother became a presbyter (presbytress) before she died in 1925. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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