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presbyterial, a. (n.)|prɛs-, prɛzbɪˈtɪərɪəl|
Also 6–7 -bit-.
[f. late L. presbyteri-um presbytery + -al1.]
1. Of or pertaining to a presbytery or body of presbyters or elders:
a. generally.
a1600Hooker Eccl. Pol. vi. i. §4 Treatises..whereby they have laboured to void the rooms of their spiritual superiors before authorized, and to advance the new fancied sceptre of lay presbyterial power. 1641R. Brooke Eng. Episc. 81 Timothy received his Evangelicall Gift by the Imposition of Presbyteriall hands. 1706De Foe Jure Div. Pref. 34 The Disputes about the Jus Divinum, of several sorts of Power, whether Regal, Episcopal, or Presbyterial, have had fatal Effects in their several Turns. 1840Gladstone Ch. Princ. 410 A question of pure fact,..whether the sufficiency of Apostolical powers has been historically transmitted in the Presbyterial as well as in the Episcopal line.
b. of a local presbytery (sense 4).
1717De Foe Mem. Ch. Scot. 16/1 The Assembly of Ministers, either General, Synodical, or Presbyterial. 1796Morse Amer. Geog. I. 271 The Presbyterian churches are governed by congregational presbyterial and synodical assemblies. 1832Chalmers in Hanna Mem. (1851) III. xvii. 317 Men will not suspend their secular business on the Presbyterial fast-day. 1852Blackie Stud. Lang. 25 Passing the entrance trials..and Presbyterial examinations.
2. (Usu. with capital initial.) = Presbyterian a. 1. (Common in 17th c.; now rare.)
1592(title) Conspiracie for Pretended Reformation: viz. Presbyteriall Discipline. 1593R. Bancroft (title) Davngerovs Positions and Proceedings, published and practised within this Iland of Brytaine, vnder pretence of Reformation, and for the Presbiteriall Discipline. 1641Milton Ch. Govt. Pref., This government, whether it ought to be presbyterial or prelatical. 1642Sir E. Dering Sp. on Relig. xvi. 82 The next is the Presbyteriall way... I can poynt out when it began. 1646Chas. I in Ellis Orig. Lett. Ser. ii. III. 326 Many persuasions and threatnings that hath been used to me for making me change Episcopal into Presbiterial Government. 1681–6J. Scott Chr. Life (1747) III. 388 The two main Rival Forms of Church Government pretending to divine Institution, are the Presbyterial and Episcopal. 1904Westm. Gaz. 6 June 3/2 The petitioners were departing from the constitution of the Presbyterial system and were going on the worst lines of a Congregationalism no one could defend.
†b. as n. = Presbyterian n. Obs.
1647G. Palmer Sectaries Unmasked 23 Another point in difference between the Presbyterialls and some of the Sectaries.
Hence † Presbyˈterialist, a Presbyterian; presbyˈterially adv., † (a) according to the Presbyterian system of church government (obs.); (b) by or on the part of a (or the) presbytery.
1647G. Palmer Sectaries Unmasked 2 Conversations between those that stand for the Presbyterialists government (or at least nearest it) and those that dissent from it. 1655S. Ashe in R. Baillie's Lett. & Jrnls. (Bannatyne Club) III. 307 Many act presbyteriallie in London, and in many counties, both in reference to ordination and admission to the sacrament. 1904R. Small Hist. U.P. Congregat. I. 281 The congregation was visited presbyterially in the end of 1773. |