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Presbyterian

Presbyterian, a presbytery; that part of the church where divine offices are performed, applied to the choir or chancel,

Presbyterianism

presbyters with all spiritual power and admits no prelates over them also the faith and polity of the Presbyterian churches taken collectively

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Presbyterian

Of or pertaining to a presbyter or to ecclesiastical government by presbyters relating to those who uphold church government by presbyters also to the doctrine discipline and worship of a communion so governed

Presbyterial

Presbyterian

Presbyterian Church of England

Presbyterian Church of England, a Protestant Church constituted under the 'Book or Order' of that Church.

Presbyterian Church of Scotland

Presbyterian Church of Scotland. The established Church of Scotland. See Will. 1 & Mary, c. 5, the Union of

Deacon

churches a person admitted to the lowest order in the ministry subordinate to the bishops and priests In Presbyterian churches he is subordinate to the minister and elders and has charge of certain duties connected with the

Marriage

by the (English) Marriage and Registration Act, 1856 (19 & 20 Vict. c. 119), all, whether Roman Catholics, Presbyterians, or others, being treated on the same footing, and is now mainly regulated by the (English) Marriage Act,

Dissenters

Dissenters, Protestant seceders from the Established Church. They are of many denominations, principally Presbyterians, Independents or Congregationalists, Methodists, and Baptists; but as to Church government the Baptists are Independents. The penal laws,

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