Look up: presbytery

1. presbytery
   [n] - building reserved for the officiating clergy
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2. Presbytery
   Part of the church around the high altar to the east of the choir.
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3. presbytery
   In church architecture, the sanctuary, or that part of the choir of the church in which the high altar is placed. The name is sometimes extended to the whole choir. The term presbytery is also used...
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4. Presbytery
   The home of a presbyter or priest.
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5. Presbytery
   Pres'by·ter·y noun ; plural Presbyteries . [ Latin presbyterium , Greek .... See Presbyter , and confer Presbyterium .] 1. A body of elders in the early Christian church. 2. (Presbyterian Ch.)
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6. presbytery
   noun building reserved for the officiating clergy
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7. Presbytery
   • (n.) A body of elders in the early Christian church. • (n.) The residence of a priest or clergyman. • (n.) That part of the church reserved for the officiating priest. • (n.) A judicatory consisting of all the ministers within a certain district, and one layman, who is a ruling...
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8. presbytery
   in church government, ruling body in Presbyterian churches that consists of the ministers and representative elders from congregations within a ... [5 related articles]
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9. presbytery
   in Western architecture, that part of a cathedral or other large cruciform church that lies between the chancel, or choir, and the high altar, or ...
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10. presbytery
    presbytery 1. A body of presbyters; specifically, in Presbyterian churches, an ecclesiastical court and governing body made up of all the ministers and a number of elders from all the churches in a district. 2. The district of such a court.
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11. Presbytery
    In architecture a presbytery is that part of the church reserved for the officiating priest or the residence of a priest or clergyman. It is the part of a church in which the high altar is placed and forms the eastern termination of the choir, above which it is raised by several steps, and is occupi...
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12. Presbytery
    Area of a church around the main altar. Reserved for the clergy, it is separated from the central nave by a balustrade.
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13. presbytery
    presbytery (prez'biter"ē, pres'–) , in architecture, the space in the eastern end of a church reserved for the higher clergy. It was also known in the early Christian Church as the apse, tribune, or exedra. In the English medieval cathedrals the presbytery usually occupies a ...
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14. Presbytery
    (architecture) The `presbytery` is the name for an area in a church building which is reserved for the clergy.--> In the oldest church it is separated by short walls, by small columns and pilasters in the Renaissance ones; it can also be raised, being reachable by a few steps, usually with railings. References: <br>
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