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† comˈpresbyter Obs.
[a. L. compresbyter (in Augustine, etc.): see com-.]
A fellow presbyter: cf. co-presbyter (in co- prefix).
[1532More Confut. Tindale Wks. 426/1 Saynt Hierome was rather contente to ioyn the latine coniunccion with the Greke woorde, and call it compresbyter.] a1600Hooker Eccl. Pol. vii. vii. §1 Donatus, and Fortunatus, and Novatus, and Gordius, our com-presbyters. 1606T. Whetenhall Disc. Abuses in Ch. 86 Peter Martyr his combresbyter or fellow Elder. 1637–50Row Hist. Kirk (1842) 255 Mr. George Grame a compresbyter, minister at Scoone.
Hence compresbyˈterial a., of or pertaining to a session or body of presbyters.
1641Milton Ch. Discip. i. (1851) 11 Coequall and compresbyteriall Power to ordaine Ministers and Deacons. |