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▪ I. presbyterate, n.|prɛsˈbɪtərət, prɛz-|
[ad. med.L. presbyterātus (755 in Du Cange): see presbyter and -ate1.]
1. The office of presbyter; presbytership, eldership.
1642Jer. Taylor Episc. (1647) 82 Why should a Deaconship, or a Presbyterate consist with the office of an Evangelist, more then a Bishoprick? 1683Corbet Nonconf. Plea 12 The Ministry that I have received, is the sacred office of Presbyterate. 1833–6J. H. Newman Hist. Sk., Prim. Chr., Apollinaris (1872) 392 His father..rose to the presbyterate in the Church of that city [Laodicea]. 1881Stanley Chr. Instit. (1884) 36 As the Episcopate became more separate from the Presbyterate.
2. A body of presbyters; the order of presbyters.
1641R. Brooke Eng. Episc. ii. iii. 74 As appears by that of Paul to Timothy, on whom were laid the Hands of the Presbytery; not of the Presbyterate, or one Presbyter. 1725tr. Dupin's Eccl. Hist. 17th C. I. v. 165 The distinction of the Episcopate and Presbyterate, as of two separate Orders. 1879Farrar St. Paul II. App. 618 The mild and natural authority which the Apostle assigns to a representative presbyterate.
▪ II. presˈbyterate, a.|-ət|
[Short for presbyterated: see next.]
Constituted of presbyters or elders.
1853D. King Def. Presbyt. Ch. Govt. vi. iii. (1854) 349 The sole or chief use of presbyterate gathering is to settle disputes.
▪ III. presˈbyterate, v.|-eɪt|
Also 9 -trate.
[f. presbyter + -ate3 7.]
trans. To constitute or organize according to the Presbyterian system. Chiefly in presˈbyterated ppl. a.
1702C. Mather Magn. Chr. v. ii. (1852) 208 A presbyterated society of the faithful. 1900W. A. Shaw Hist. Eng. Ch. II. 126 All the Parliamentary ordinances for the county classes which have survived, only presbytrated or united into the classes, the parish churches or chapels. |