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presbyteryn. Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Partly formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: French presbiterie ; Latin presbyterium ; presbyter n., -y suffix3. Etymology: Partly < Anglo-Norman presbiterie part of a church reserved for the clergy (1200 or earlier; also as presbitere (1212 or earlier)) and its etymon post-classical Latin presbyterium presbyterium n., and partly < presbyter n. + -y suffix3; compare -ery suffix. Compare Old French presbiterie part of a church containing the choir (c1170; also as presbitere (1294)), French †presbytère (1627). With sense 6 compare earlier presbytère n. and its etymon French presbytère.Perhaps compare Middle English prismatory (one isolated attestation in uncertain sense, perhaps denoting the recessed bench or seats reserved for the priests within the altar rails: see Middle Eng. Dict. s.v. prismatōrīe n.), which may be a transmission error for presbytery , perhaps influenced by chrismatory n.:1412 in L. F. Salzman Building in Eng. (1952) 488 A hegh awter..with thre Prismatories [sic] couenably made be mason crafte. With Middle English forms presbetory , presbytory compare -ory suffix1. society > faith > artefacts > division of building (general) > chancel or sanctuary > [noun] 1466 Inventory in (1887) 50 42 (MED) j cloth of grene bokrame lyned for the presbetory. c1510 Inv. in XIV. 194 Itm. iij old qwishons daily lying in the presbitery. a1552 J. Leland (1711) II. 40 A Noble Man caullid Philip Fitz Payne was buryed..under an Arch on the North side of the Presbyterie. 1601 F. Godwin 307 Bishop Ralfe..was buried in a goodly toombe built by him selfe in his life time, situate vpon the South side of the Presbytery. 1694 J. Strype i. xxiv. 95 Iohn Chambre B. D. was Consecrated first Bishop of Peterburgh..in the Cathedral Church of Peterburgh, in the Presbytery there. 1710 J. Groome xi. 193 Richard Fox, Bishop of Winchester, cover'd the Choir of that Church, the Presbytery, and the Isle adjoining, making a handsome Vault. 1784 S. Hardy v. 249 That Part of the Church which at present we call the Chancel..was sometimes called Bema or Tribunal... Some called it the Presbytery. 1845 J. H. Parker (ed. 4) I. 298 Presbytery,..the part of a church in which the high Altar is placed; it forms the eastern termination of the choir, above which it is raised by several steps, and is occupied exclusively by those who minister in the services of the Altar. 1874 J. T. Micklethwaite 8 The nave, or body of the church; the choir, and the sanctuary or presbytery. 1936 A. W. Clapham viii. 175 Perhaps the finest of the later German crypts is that under the presbytery and the aisles of Gurk cathedral. 1985 R. Fawcett 10/2 The main body of the choir was usually an elongated space with the ceremonial area round the high altar, known as the presbytery, towards its eastern end. 1998 (Nexis) Mar. s6 The directionality of the speakers [in Carlisle cathedral] which allow for flat placement on the presbytery pillars, allowing an unbroken view of presbytery, high altar and choir stalls. 2. society > faith > church government > ecclesiastical discipline > court > presbyterian > [noun] > presbytery 1581 in T. Thomson (1840) II. 505 Na man aucht to haue the office of visitatioun [i.e. be a Superintendent], bot he that is lauchfullie chosin be the Presbyterie thairto. 1582 in D. Masson (1880) 1st Ser. III. 476 Patrik Gillespie, moderatour of the haill presbiterie of Striveling. 1640 in J. Nicholson 25 July (1855) 25 Some must be appoyntit in everie Presbytrie, by the Committee thairof. 1693 III. 28 Mar. At the first sederunt of the presbitry he, being ruleing elder for this paroch, should enquire what time they would commense the vacancy of this paroch. 1717 D. Defoe i. 6 The Subordination of Judicatories is such, and the Proceedings so nicely accounted for by the Kirk-Sessions to the Presbyteries, by the Presbyteries to the Provincial Synods, and by the Synods to the General Assemblies, that there can no Mistake pass unobserved. 1761 D. Hume III. liii. 138 (note) A presbytery in Scotland is an inferior ecclesiastical court, the same that was afterwards called a classis in England. 1803 Introd. p. xv The General Assembly..consists of commissioners, some of which are laymen, under the name of ruling elders, from presbyteries, royal boroughs, and universities. 1828 E. Irving p. viii Having received ordination from the Presbytery,..I set out on this very morning six years ago, on my way to London. 1876 J. Grant ii. i. 83 In 1706 the Assembly recommended presbyteries to visit all public grammar schools within their bounds. 1914 J. Mackay 109 Presbyteries evolved..from what was called the ‘exercise’, at which ministers within reach of each other met for mutual benefit in the study of the Scriptures and points of doctrine. 1995 23 Sept. 6/6 Dunoon Presbytery met with the congregation of Strachur Church for the setting apart of Mr John Callis as a Reader in the Church of Scotland. society > faith > church government > ecclesiastical discipline > court > presbyterian > [noun] > presbytery > district of 1581 in D. Masson (1880) 1st Ser. III. 383 That thaireftir presbitereis or elderschippis may be constitute. 1591 in D. Masson (1881) 1st Ser. IV. 628 Maist pairt of the kirkis within the said presbiterie. 1640 in J. Nicholson 24 Sept. (1855) 48 Thair are ten kirkes of the presbytrie of Drumfries. 1672 11 Mar. That the justices of the pace of this presbitrie hes given in a bill [etc.]. 1706 J. Hunter (1918) I. 424 That they have the probationers within the bounds of Perth Presbitery haveing the Irish language. 1725 R. Wodrow (1843) III. 196 This day the Assembly met at ten, and sat till after three, on a settlement of one Mr Strachan, in the Presbytery of Garioch. a1817 T. Dwight (1821) II. 112 He lived within the bounds of the Presbytery of Albany [U.S.]. 1887 R. L. Stevenson 97 He had a feck o' books wi' him—mair than had ever been seen before in a' that presbytery. 1947 in H. W. Meikle 125 The Church of Scotland itself comprises 66 presbyteries, containing 2,426 charges. 1973 17 Feb. 31/2 Congregations within the presbytery contributed £21,647. 1998 (Nexis) 28 Feb. 2 e Some 75 churches across the Presbytery of South Louisiana are expected to participate in the all-day annual event. society > faith > church government > ecclesiastical discipline > court > presbyterian > [noun] > presbytery > of a country a1592 P. Adamson (1598) sig. C2 For as concerning the authoritie of the presbyterie we haif the samen expressed in the Gospel of Saint Matthew. 1628 G. Wither viii. 1705 In Scotland if I liv'd, I would deny No due respect to their Presbyterie. 1651 T. Hobbes xliv. 341 The Presbytery hath challenged the power to Excommunicate their owne Kings, and to bee the Supreme Moderators in Religion, in the places where they have that form of Church government. 1770 in 18 If ever you retire to A—r—a (meaning America) be assured they will give you such a covenant to digest, as the presbytery of Scotland would have been ashamed to offer to Charles the Second. society > faith > church government > ecclesiastical discipline > court > presbyterian > [noun] > kirk-session 1655 T. Fuller ix. 103 The Nonconformists though over-powred for the present [1572] in Parliament..after the dissolution thereof,..presumed to erect a Presbitery at Wandsworth in Surrey... This was the first-born of all Presbyteries in England, and secundum usum Wandesworth, as much honoured by some, as secundum usum Sarum by others. 1695 J. Sage ii. 239 The Sect had set up a Presbytery at Wandsworth in Surrey in the year 1572,..seven years before a Presbytery was so much as heard of in Scotland. 1757 T. Smollett III. ix. 147 A presbytery was formed at the village of Wandsworth, on the model of the Geneva institution. 1842 H. Robinson tr. E. Sandys in 1st Ser. i. 296 Each parish should have its own presbytery. 1889 A. H. Drysdale 121 A Congregational Eldership or parochial Presbytery, to which the Elizabethan Puritans attached prime importance. 1889 A. H. Drysdale 146 The Presbytery which was set up at Wandsworth was a local or parochial eldership. society > faith > sect > Christianity > Protestantism > Presbyterianism > [noun] 1590 ‘Pasquil’ sig. C4v Thys beeing a place vppon which they haue built theyr Presbiterie, if they pull but one straw out of the nest, al their egges are broken. 1622 F. Bacon Hist. Great Brit. in (Bohn) 499 The ministers, and those which stood for the presbytery, thought their cause had more sympathy with the discipline of Scotland than the hierarchy of England. 1647 10 Presbyterie is the Rivall of Episcopacie. 1694 95 Those they then called Puritans..were divided about Church-Government, some for Presbytery and others for Independency. 1716 M. Davies Diss. Author & Oecon. Lat. Drama 2 in III The Independants pretend to refine upon Presbitery (as that did upon the Church). 1837 J. R. McCulloch II. iv. viii. 418 The act of William and Mary, re-establishing presbytery, passed in 1690. 1872 O. Shipley 264 Prelacy was re-established [in] 1610,..but Presbytery became finally triumphant. 1932 J. Buchan ii. 37 Dalzell used to maintain that Presbytery had killed classical scholarship in Scotland. 1963 R. S. Louden iv. 39 In Presbytery..there has been gathered up this apostolic authority to ordain and induct—the oversight of the flock of God..is corporately exercised and transmitted through Presbytery. 1997 (Nexis) Apr. He had abolished episcopacy in Scotland and permitted the establishment of presbytery there. society > faith > church government > ecclesiastical discipline > court > presbyterian > [noun] > kirk-session > member of > collective 1591 M. Sutcliffe iii. §i. 37 According to antiquity, the bishop..is chosen by the presbytery of the Church. 1611 1 Tim. iv. 14 Neglect not the gift..which was giuen thee by prophesie, with laying on of the hands of the Presbyterie [Gk. τοῦ πρεσβυτερίου, L. presbyterii, Wyclif of prestis or presthod, Tindale an elder, Cranmer presthode, Geneva the Eldership, Rheims priesthod, Revised the presbytery] . View more context for this quotation 1641 J. Milton 41 The bosome admonition of a Friend is a Presbytery, and a Consistory to them. 1650 R. Baxter (1651) ii. vi. §1 254 Even the Bishop with his Presbyterie was in each particular Church. 1651 T. L. Advt. to Q. Elizabeth in 50 That the magistracy whereunder he is placed, whether it be of one, of few, or many is his allowed seniory and lawfull presbytery. 1709 J. Johnson p. li When Alexander, bishop of Alexandria, called a Presbytery to condemn Arius, he had Deacons present with him, as well as Bishops and Priests. 1833 No. 7. 4 The Bishops have no where committed it to the Presbytery. 1853 D. King (1854) v. vi. 269 The early Christian fathers frequently call the deliberative council of a particular church its presbytery. 1927 7 629 Special mention shall be made..of the growth of the early church constitution out of the earliest..communities, leading first to the formation of presbyteries and finally to the rise of the episcopate. 1999 41 32 Latin American mainstream Protestants today are often heirs of several generations of church teaching... Churches are organized like their parent bodies; into dioceses or presbyteries, for example. society > faith > church government > ecclesiastical discipline > court > presbyterian > [noun] > kirk-session > member of > office of 1596 E. Coote 89/2 Presbyterie, Eldership. 1630 R. Brathwait 351 Those precise Schismaticks..cannot endure any precedencie or prioritie of place to be in the Church, but an equalitie of Presbyterie. 1660 R. Coke Elements Power & Subjection 89 in The next order in the Church of Christ to Apostles and Bishops is that of Presbytery or Priesthood. 1705 R. Nelson (ed. 3) ii. vii. 457 If the word..Presbytery..signifie not a College of Presbyters, but the Office. 1730 T. Aiton iv. 505 Bishops and Presbyters were Members of the same Presbytery; and their Order according to Divine Institution was the same. 1800 T. Haweis I. p. x Whether episcopacy, a presbytery, or the congregational order, be established as the dominant possession, it affects not the body of Christ. society > faith > artefacts > clerical residence (general) > [noun] 1825 R. Southey in 33 136 The presbytery of the Moderator differed little either in construction or size from the hovels by which it was surrounded. 1869 86 The services are conducted by members of the order of St. Benedict; and a religious house, or ‘presbytery’, for their accommodation, adjoins the church. 1896 3 Mar. 8/3 He dated his communication from ‘The Presbytery’, as is usual among Roman Catholic clergy. 1902 N. Munro in Nov. 584/1 They walked together to the presbytery-house. 1954 P. Frankau iii. v. 229 In the Presbytery there was a traceable echo from the convent where I went to school. 1985 A. Kenny (1986) xii. 161 The presbytery at Crosby, though quite comfortable, was not at all..expensively equipped. 2004 (Nexis) 28 Oct. He admitted to taking off all his clothes when mother and daughter visited and playing hide and seek in the presbytery house. Compounds 1597 in D. H. Fleming 835 Untill the nixt presbiteri day. 1698 Minute 16 Nov. in J. Hunter (1918) II. 18 The bell to ring precisely again 10 in the foirnoon on the Presbitrie day. 1750 D. Dickson 37 The Court, without any Exception, ordered me against next Presbytery Day, to give in a Condescendence of the alleged Calumnies, of the Members supposed guilty. 1865 J. Brown 187 Next Presbytery day, after the ordinary business was over, he rose up. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2007; most recently modified version published online June 2022). <  n.1466 |
