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archpresbyteries

archpresbyteries is the plural of archpresbytery.

Meaning of archpresbytery

Noun

archpresbytery (plural archpresbyteries)

  1. The absolute dominion of presbytery.
    • “The government of their kirk we despised” not, but their imposing of that government upon us; not presbytery, but archpresbytery, classical, provincial, and diocesan presbytery, claiming to itself a lordly power and superintendency both over flocks and pastors, over persons and congregations no...1649 October, John Milton, chapter XIII, in Eikonoklastes. In Answer to a Book Intitled, Eikon Basilike, The PORTRAITURE of his SACRED MAJESTY in his Solitudes and Sufferings

Questions about archpresbyteries

What is archpresbyteries the plural of?
Archpresbyteries is the plural of archpresbytery.

Words near archpresbyteries in the dictionary

  1. archpractitioner
  2. archpractitioners
  3. archprelate
  4. archprelates
  5. archpresbyter
  6. archpresbyteries
  7. archpresbyters
  8. archpresbytery
  9. archpriest
  10. archpriesthood
  11. archpriesthoods

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