arch presbyter

[Eng. arch; presbyter. In Fr. archiprétre, arciprètre; Lat. arch i presbyter; Gr. ἀρχιπρεσβύτερος ( archipresbu teros). A chief presbyter. "As simple deacons are in subjection to presbyters, according to the canon law; so are also presbyters and arch-presbyters in subjection to these archdeacons."Aylife: Parergon. IMG:content-0707.png:[blocks in formation] ". the archprestrie or vicarage of Dunbar." Acts Jas. VI . (1606). At an early period the arch - priests or arch presbyters in a cathedral church acted as vicars to the bishop; afterwards they became the same as rural deans. (Jamie son.) IL Presbytery claiming too extensive and too lordly a power of domination. "The government of the kirk we despised 'not, but their imposing of that government upon us: not presbytery, but arch-presbytery, cla ical, provincial, and diocesan presbytery, claiming to itself a lordly power and super intendancy, both over flocks and pastors, over persons and congregations no way their own." Milton: Eicon . , § xiii.