(n.) A body of elders in the early Christian church.
(n.) A judicatory consisting of all the ministers within a certain district, and one layman, who is a ruling elder, from each parish or church, commissioned to represent the church in conjunction with the pastor. This body has a general jurisdiction over the churches under its care, and next below the provincial synod in authority.
(n.) The Presbyterian religion of polity.
(n.) That part of the church reserved for the officiating priest.
(n.) The residence of a priest or clergyman.
Example Sentences:
(1) Over the past year, 29 presbyteries have approved such a move, and 19 opposed it.
(2) This decision was in line with a majority of presbyteries who voted in favour of such a move.” Because the debate predates the legalisation of gay marriage, the proposed change mentions only civil partnerships, not same-sex marriages.
(3) Furness said Ronald Mulkearns, who was made bishop of Ballarat in 1971, moved Ridsdale due to complaints over “inappropriate behaviour” including reports from two parents that a boy was living at the Mortlake presbytery with him.
(4) Congregations and presbyteries should think about how they might mobilise to ‘adopt a family’ and support them in their practical and human needs,” the church’s president, Stuart McMillan, said.
(5) Owners Arnaud and Armelle Raillard have an eye for all things arty and have tastefully renovated this former presbytery with limewashed walls, warm colours and funky furniture.
(6) This included 31 of the church’s presbyteries endorsing the move to 14 who opposed it.
Rectory
Definition:
(n.) The province of a rector; a parish church, parsonage, or spiritual living, with all its rights, tithes, and glebes.
(n.) A rector's mansion; a parsonage house.
Example Sentences:
(1) "I mean into holy orders, into the rectory in Fulbourn.
(2) Michael Parroy QC, representing the Serious Fraud Office, also told the court on Tuesday that Hayes and his lawyer wife, Sarah Tighe, went through “various manoeuvres” to transfer the £1.7m Old Rectory in Surrey into her name and failed to inform the SFO as required.
(3) We're sitting in the front room of the Rectory at Fulbourn near Cambridge.
(4) As a medical student, Burns voted for Reid – who was a SNP supporter in later life – to become rector of the University of Glasgow, and vividly recalls his rectorial address, which was printed in full in the New York Times .
(5) In retrospect, the most noticeable absentees were Scottish university students – their idea of insurrection was limited then to throwing flour bombs at rectorial elections – and ambitious members of the Labour party.
(6) Upping and leaving Moorland a week ago when the waters inundated their historic rectory (which had never flooded before) was not an easy operation.
(7) Initially, she was brought up in the village rectory with her grandparents and her mother.
(8) McDonnell revealed during the trial that he is now separated from his wife and living in a rectory with a longtime priest friend.
(9) It’s been really tough,” said Bryony Sadler, mother of two young children, who has just moved back into her home, a former rectory that had never before flooded.
(10) What changed over the next year was a combination of greater public awareness of the problems that can accompany shale drilling, bullish government support for shale gas ( "we'll see how thick their rectory walls are and how they like flaring at the end of the drive" is how Tory energy minister Michael Fallon threatened middle England), and most of all the decision by Cuadrilla to make Balcombe – a small village in the leafy heart of the Sussex commuter belt – its next target.
(11) On the second day of the five-day confiscation of funds hearing, Parroy said Hayes and Tighe applied for a £325,000 interest-only mortgage on the Old Rectory in April 2013, more than a year after he was arrested in December 2011.
(12) When her father returned from the second world war, the family moved from the old rectory to a newly-built council house.
(13) By early 2013 Hayes’s legal bills in Britain and the US were rising fast and them couple tried to sell the Old Rectory before opting to take out a mortgage, Parroy said.
(14) Michael Fallon, energy minister, signalled his willingness to fight when he declared in a recent private meeting that middle England would have to put up with the impact, saying: "We're going to see how thick their rectory walls are … and whether they like the flaring at the end of the drive."
(15) Parroy said: “As far as one can see [there is] no information at this stage at all that this process is going on.” Parroy painted a picture of pressure mounting on Hayes and Tighe, who paid £1.2m in cash for the Old Rectory in summer 2011.
(16) As with the Old Rectory, they used cash from Hayes’s savings to buy the flat.
(17) When, in the wake of the UCS triumph, as he swept into the elected rectorship of Glasgow University, his rectorial address was printed in its entirety by the New York Times, which compared it favourably to the speeches of Abraham Lincoln.
(18) It’s been tough, really tough.” The government’s announcement on Tuesday that £15.5m will be spent on flood defences in Somerset in the next six years was welcomed by the likes of Sadler, who suffered the heartbreak of leaving her dream house – a former rectory that had never flooded before – with husband, two children, mother and numerous animals and pets in tow.
(19) He's a very English combination of self-effacement, drollery and dogmatism – a listed rectory in a suit and blue tie (unlike his more artistic brother, this paper's architecture critic, Rowan Moore).
(20) She called No 9 Coronation Street the Old Rectory and dreamed of retiring to a nice bungalow in Blackpool.