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Definition of: presbyter
(prez′bə·tər, pres′-) noun
1. In the early church, one of the elders of a church.
2. Eccl. a In hierarchical churches, a priest. b In Presbyterian churches, an ordained clergyman (a teaching elder); also, a layman who is a member of the governing body of a congregation (a ruling elder). [<LL <Gk. presbyteros an elder. Doublet of PRIEST.]
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