(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.
Sanctuary
Definition:
(n.) A sacred place; a consecrated spot; a holy and inviolable site.
(n.) The most retired part of the temple at Jerusalem, called the Holy of Holies, in which was kept the ark of the covenant, and into which no person was permitted to enter except the high priest, and he only once a year, to intercede for the people; also, the most sacred part of the tabernacle; also, the temple at Jerusalem.
(n.) The most sacred part of any religious building, esp. that part of a Christian church in which the altar is placed.
(n.) A house consecrated to the worship of God; a place where divine service is performed; a church, temple, or other place of worship.
(n.) A sacred and inviolable asylum; a place of refuge and protection; shelter; refuge; protection.
Example Sentences:
(1) Previous studies suggest that patients who are in clinical remission harbor tumor in multiple occult "sanctuaries."
(2) Conservatives have called for federal funding to be curtailed if a municipality maintains a “sanctuary” policy.
(3) Other kinds of intelligence, particularly that on the effect of drone attacks on the leadership of al-Qaida and its allies in Pakistan , also suggest that the frontier zone is not the sanctuary it once was.
(4) Prince William is due to make a speech about conservation at an elephant sanctuary in China on 4 March.
(5) Just last year, a researcher at Jane Goodall's primate sanctuary in South Africa suffered "multiple and severe bite wounds" after getting too close to a group of chimps and being dragged off.
(6) In the town of Boali, 60 miles to the north, the Catholic priest Xavier-Arnauld Fagba went from house to house and into the bush to offer Muslims sanctuary in his church .
(7) Instead, he called on Catholic parishes to offer sanctuary to refugee families.
(8) Lord Dubs: refugees face greater hostility than ever in 2017 Read more “We have a record of which we are justifiably proud in relation to refugees, giving sanctuary to 8,000 last year, and children are continuing to arrive every year.
(9) The infiltrative characteristics of acute monocytic leukemia and the anatomic barriers and location of the testicles may have provided a sanctuary from chemotherapy.
(10) Fielding nods enthusiastically: 'By running a butterfly sanctuary in Peru.'
(11) The MCS has warned, however, that fragile coastal habitats such as estuaries, saltmarsh and bird sanctuaries are excluded from any proposed new routes.
(12) Leukemic invasion of the eye should receive appropriate recognition; the posterior pole should be included in the treatment of the central nervous system as a pharmacologic sanctuary.
(13) May said the coalition's plans for emergency sanctuary had been cleared with the UNHCR in London and had its endorsement.
(14) A UK Border Agency spokesman said: "The UK has a proud record of offering sanctuary to those who need it, but people who do not have a genuine need for our protection must return to their home country.
(15) Attendance at scientific sessions of learned professional societies and short courses should be accompanied by presession and post-session guided reading to be undertaken in the physician's home library-sanctuary.
(16) Nevertheless, he will be offered the sanctuary of the vulnerable prisoner unit, where most of his peers will have been convicted of sexual crimes.
(17) The conjunctiva may well be an iatrogenic "sanctuary site" when this disease is treated with PUVA therapy.
(18) This progress has resulted from a closely integrated scientific effort, including drug development, pharmacology, preclinical modeling, experimental design with respect to clinical trials, quantitative criteria for response, and a series of clinical trials (initially in children with acute lymphocytic leukemia) in which the importance of complete remission, of dose and schedule, of sequencing chemotherapeutic agents, of pharmacological sanctuaries, and particularly of combination chemotherapy was studied.
(19) They’re allowed to offer help, as many do, but the idea that sanctuary policies are somehow going to be struck down in the courts is absurd because they’re totally legal,” Graber said.
(20) The decision to recall the ambassador was taken “in protest at the increasing and unprecedented Israeli escalation in the Noble Sanctuary, and the repeated Israeli violations of Jerusalem,” Jordan’s Petra news agency said.