moderatorshipn.

1641 ‘Smectymnuus’ Vindic. Answer Hvmble Remonstr. xiv. 182 From whose Moderators our Bishops differ onely in perpetuitie of Moderatorship.

1656 P. Heylyn Extraneus Vapulans 153 Passed from one to another in their severall turns like the Moderatorship in the generall Assembly of the Kirk of Scotland.

1753 S. Richardson Hist. Sir Charles Grandison I. xiii. 76 Mr. Reeves..said he would, by way of moderatorship in the present debate, read them a passage.

1838 Dublin Univ. Cal. 15 Those candidates for degrees who have obtained honors in the preceding part of the College Course, are entitled to offer themselves as candidates for Moderatorships.

1901 Daily Chron. 25 Dec. 6/4 Moderatorship of the Free Church of Scotland... A letter was read from the Rev. Dr. Marcus Dods, declining to be nominated to the Moderatorship of the next Assembly.

1934 Z. N. Hurston Jonah's Gourd Vine xix. 221 There were those who exulted in John's ignominious fall from the Moderatorship after nine years tenure.

1976 Church Times 2 Apr. 1/1 Under the genial moderatorship of Archbishop Edward (Ted) Scott of Toronto, Canada, this ‘core group’ of the much larger Central Committee [of the World Council of Churches] approved a 1976 budget for the Council.

1990 Christian News World Apr. 8/1 The aim is a permanent public and media presence alongside the Anglicans and Catholics—hitherto difficult with a one-year moderatorship.