presbyterianism in English
noun
1
a form of Protestant Church government in which the church is administered locally by the minister with a group of elected elders of equal rank, and regionally and nationally by representative courts of ministers and elders.
And in particular, by engaging lay people as well as ordained ministers in the government of the Church, Presbyterianism prepared the people for participatory democracy.
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1. Lucy Mack tried Presbyterianism, but in her words, “all was emptiness.”
2. 12 French - born Swiss theologian whose tenets defined Presbyterianism ( 1509 - 1564 ).
3. Burghers (bûr`gərz), in the 18th cent., a party of the Secession Church of Scotland, resulting from one of the "breaches" in the history of Presbyterianism