The Century dictionary and cyclopedia; a work of universal reference in all departments of knowledge, with a new atlas of the world .. . appiove or censure the recordsof church-sessions; to resolve questions of doctrine ordiscipline seriously and reasonably proposed; to condemnerroneous opinions which injure tlie purity or peace ofthe church: to visit particular churches, for the pur-pose ot inquiring into their state and redressing the evilsthat may have arisen in them ; to unite or divide congre-gations, at the request of the people, or to form and re-ceive new congregations ; and, in genera
The Century dictionary and cyclopedia; a work of universal reference in all departments of knowledge, with a new atlas of the world .. . appiove or censure the recordsof church-sessions; to resolve questions of doctrine ordiscipline seriously and reasonably proposed; to condemnerroneous opinions which injure tlie purity or peace ofthe church: to visit particular churches, for the pur-pose ot inquiring into their state and redressing the evilsthat may have arisen in them ; to unite or divide congre-gations, at the request of the people, or to form and re-ceive new congregations ; and, in general, to order what-ever pertains to the spiritual welfare of the churches un-der their care. 3. The ecclesiastical district ordivision underthe .jurisdiction of a presbyter.— 4. [cj.] ThePresbyterian polity. The question between Episcopacy and Presbytery. Crail!, Hist. Eng. Lit., II. CO. 5. In «)•(?/(., the part of the church .ippropriatedto the clergy; in the early cliiircli, and in theGreek Clnircli, the space between the altar andapse, or the whole sanctuary; afterward, tliespace near tlie altar, or tlie sedilia; in later. medieval and modem use, the space in a cathe-dral or hirge chmidi (often raised) between thechoir and the alltir; less strictly, the choir orchancel. AUso iiresbyteritim. See diagram undercdtlieclral. prescind The enclosure of the choir was kept low, so as not tohide the view of the raised j»-e>fbytery, or to prevent thecongregation from witnessing the more sacred mysteiicsof the faith which were there performed by the higherOlder of clergj. J. Feryits-^on, Hist. Arch., I. 407. 6. A clergymans house; a parsonage. [Ko-man Catholic use.] Presbytes (pres-bitez), i(. [NL., < Gr. irpea-jivri/r^, an old man: see prcshyte.] A genus ofsemnopithecine or sacred monkeys: synony-mous with Sciiiiwjiitheciis. prescapula,pr8escapula(rre-skapu-la),n.; pi. preseapiilie, jirnsviipiihr (-le). [NL. pr^escapii-la, < L. pric, before, + scapitla, shoulder-blade:see
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