presbytery
noun/ˈprezbɪtri/
/ˈprezbɪteri/
(plural presbyteries)
- a local council of the Presbyterian Church
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- a house where a Roman Catholic priest lives
- part of a church, near the east end, beyond the choir
Word Originlate Middle English (in sense (3)): from Old French presbiterie, via ecclesiastical Latin from Greek presbuterion, from presbuteros ‘elder’ (used in the New Testament to denote an elder of the early church), comparative of presbus ‘old (man)’.
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