eldership

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   The position of being elder or senior

   The position of being elder or senior; seniority, precedence of birth, primogeniture.

   • Primogenitura, or eldership of birth, was greatly respected by God.
   • My claim to her by Eldership I prove.
   • Her sister addressed her always by the word Child, with an air of eldership.
2. 2

   The personality of an elderly person.

   • So irresistible to their elderships to be flattered.
3. 3

   The office or position of elder in a church.

   • The office of eldership is equallie distributed betweene the bishop and the minister.
   • He was deposed from his Eldership.
   • When I came first to Caulds I sought to prevail upon him to accept the eldership, but he aye put me by, and when I heard his tale I saw that he had done wisely.
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   1. 4

      The collective body of (ecclesiastical) elders

      The collective body of (ecclesiastical) elders; a body or court of elders, a presbytery.

      • That gyft, which was geuen thee by prophecie with the laying on of the handes, by the Eldership.
      • They that tyrannize not over, but be subject to their particulare elderships.
      • Do you not lay in one scale the minister against the whole eldership in the other?
   2. 5

      The smallest administrative division in Lithuania, equivalent to a ward.

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