Word Meanings - INSTITUTOR - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A presbyter appointed by the bishop to institute a rector or assistant minister over a parish church. (more info) 1. One who institutes, founds, ordains, or establishes. 2. One who educates; an instructor. Walker.

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• ASSISTANTLY
  In a manner to give aid.
• CHURCHLINESS
  Regard for the church.
• PRESBYTERY
  A judicatory consisting of all the ministers within a certain district, and one layman, who is a ruling elder, from each parish or church, commissioned to represent the church in conjunction with the pastor. This body has a general jurisdiction
• CHURCHLIKE
  Befitting a church or a churchman; becoming to a clergyman. Shak.
• RECTOR
  A clergyman in charge of a parish. 3. The head master of a public school. 4. The chief elective officer of some universities, as in France and Scotland; sometimes, the head of a college; as, the Rector of Exeter College, or of Lincoln College, at
• BISHOPDOM
  Jurisdiction of a bishop; episcopate. "Divine right of bishopdom." Milton.
• RECTORSHIP
  1. Government; guidance. "The rectorship of judgment." Shak. 2. The office or rank of a rector; rectorate.
• PRESBYTERSHIP
  The office or station of a presbyter; presbyterate.
• CHURCH
  AS. circe, cyrice; akin to D. kerk, Icel. kirkja, Sw. kyrka, Dan. kirke, G. kirche, OHG. chirihha; all fr. Gr. ç'd4ra hero, Zend. çura 1. A building set apart for Christian worship. 2. A Jewish or heathen temple. Acts xix. 37. 3. A formally
• CHURCHYARD
  The ground adjoining a church, in which the dead are buried; a cemetery. Like graves in the holy churchyard. Shak. Syn. -- Burial place; burying ground; graveyard; necropolis; cemetery; God's acre.
• CHURCH-BENCH
  A seat in the porch of a church. Shak.
• RECTORAL
  Pertaining to a rector or governor.
• BISHOPLY
  Bishoplike; episcopal.
• CHURCH MODES
  The modes or scales used in ancient church music. See Gregorian.
• BISHOP-STOOL
  A bishop's seat or see.
• PRESBYTERIANISM
  That form of church government which invests presbyters with all spiritual power, and admits no prelates over them; also, the faith and polity of the Presbyterian churches, taken collectively.
• APPOINTER
  One who appoints, or executes a power of appointment. Kent.
• BISHOP'S-WEED
  An umbelliferous plant of the genus Ammi. Goutweed .
• CHURCHSHIP
  State of being a church. South.
• MINISTERY
  See MILTON
• PRORECTORATE
  The office of prorector.
• SHOPWALKER
  One who walks about in a shop as an overseer and director. Cf. Floorwalker.
• SLEEPWALKER
  One who walks in his sleep; a somnambulist.
• PANPRESBYTERIAN
  Belonging to, or representative of, those who hold Presbyterian views in all parts of the world; as, a Panpresbyterian council.
• GUINEA-PIG DIRECTOR
  A director who serves merely or mainly for the fee paid for attendance.
• REAPPOINT
  To appoint again.
• CORRECTORY
  Containing or making correction; corrective.