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presbyterian

/prez-bi-teer-ee-uhn, pres-/US // ˌprɛz bɪˈtɪər i ən, ˌprɛs- //UK // (ˌprɛzbɪˈtɪərɪən) //

长老会,长老会的,长老院,长老会的人

Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : pertaining to or based on the principle of ecclesiastical government by presbyters or presbyteries.
    • : designating or pertaining to various churches having this form of government and professing more or less modified forms of Calvinism.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a member of a Presbyterian church; a person who supports Presbyterianism.

Examples

  • “The captain said there was a person on board who worked in a lab at Texas Health Presbyterian,” Lupher said.

  • That and incompetence at the Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital may have caused the deadly disease to spread.

  • Paul employed his wife, a deacon in their Bowling Green presbyterian church, for damage control.

  • Neyoy is the first immigrant to take sanctuary at Southside Presbyterian in over 30 years.

  • His father was an immigrant Scottish Presbyterian minister and had kept his older son at home and educated him himself.

  • Vincent Alsop died; a presbyterian clergyman, who attacked Dr. Sherlock with great wit and some seriousness.

  • They have an old Cathedral here (now Presbyterian) of which the citizens seem quite proud, I can't perceive why.

  • In the Presbyterian Church under the care of Mr. Ellis are 39 communicants.

  • And, above all, it is necessary that the Free Presbyterian Church should have regard to explicit solemn covenant obligations.

  • Mr. Palfrey terms this attempt a "Presbyterian cabal," and calls its leaders "conspirators."