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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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PRESBYTERIAL a.

Presbyterian. "Presbyterial government." Milton.

PRESBYTERIAN a. 2 definitions

Of or pertaining to a presbyter, or to ecclesiastical government by presbyters; relating to those who uphold church government by presbyters; also, to the doctrine, discipline, and worship of a communion so governed.

PRESBYTERIANISM n.

That form of church government which invests presbyters with all spiritual power, and admits no prelates over them; also, the faith and polity of the Presbyterian churches, taken collectively.

PRESBYTERIUM n.

Same as Presbytery, 4.

PRESBYTERSHIP n.

The office or station of a presbyter; presbyterate.

PRESBYTERY n. 4 definitions

The Presbyterian religion of polity. [R.] Tatler.

Same as Presbyopic.

PROPAROXYTONE n.

A word which has the acute accent on the antepenult.

PROSELYTE n. 2 definitions

y; thus, a Gentile converted to Judaism, or a pagan converted to Christianity, is a proselyte. Ye [Scribes and Pharisees] compass sea and land to make one proselyte. Matt. xxiii. 15. Fresh confidence the speculatist takes From every harebrained proselyte he makes. Cowper.

PROSELYTISM n. 2 definitions

The act or practice of proselyting; the making of converts to a religion or a religious sect, or to any opinion, system, or party. They were possessed of a spirit of proselytism in the most fanatical degree. Burke.

PROSELYTIZE v. 2 definitions

o some religion, system, opinion, or the like; to bring, or cause to come, over; to proselyte. One of those whom they endeavor to proselytize. Burke.

PROSELYTIZER n.

One who proselytes.

teid or albuminous matter into soluble and diffusible products, as peptones. " The proteolytic ferment of the pancreas." Foster.

Any unicellular plant, or plant forming only a plasmodium, having reproduction only by fission, gemmation, or cell division.

PROTOPHYTOLOGY n.

A public building in certain Greek cities; especially, a public hall in Athens regarded as the home of the community, in which official hospitality was extended to distinguished citizens and strangers.

A member of one of the ten sections into which the Athenian senate of five hundred was divided, and to each of which belonged the presidency of the senate for about one tenth of the year.

The period during which the presidency of the senate belonged to the prytanes of the section.