eldership

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

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

   “Primogenitura, or eldership of birth, was greatly respected by God.”

2. isim The personality of an elderly person.

   “So irresistible to their elderships to be flattered.”

3. isim The office or position of elder in a church.

   “The office of eldership is equallie distributed betweene the bishop and the minister.”

4. isim 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.”

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

   “Article 1 of the Constitution of the Republic of Lithuania states that the State of Lithuania is an independent democratic republic. The territory of Lithuania is divided into ten counties. Countries^([sic]) are subdivided into sixty municipalities. Municipalities may be divided into elderships.”