释义 |
ˈPresbyterism rare. [f. presbyter + -ism.] †a. = Presbyterianism. Obs. b. The office or rank of a presbyter.
1659Gauden Tears Ch. 564 Anabaptisme, or Presbyterisme, or Independentisme. a1670Hacket Abp. Williams ii. (1692) 197 It looks not all like Popery that Presbyterism was disdained by the king; his father had taught him that it was a sect so perfidious, that he found more faith among the Highlanders. 1826G. S. Faber Diffic. Romanism (1853) 407 The consecration..of Archbishop Parker, even if we concede the mere Presbyterism of Barlow, will be more canonical than that of Pope Pelagius, by the precise amount of one Bishop. |