The Collaborative International Dictionary
Presiding \Pre*sid"ing\, a. & n. from Preside.
Presiding elder. See under 2d Elder.
Elder \Eld"er\, n. [AS. ealdor an elder, prince, fr. eald old. See Old, and cf. Elder, a., Alderman.]
One who is older; a superior in age; a senior.
--1 Tim. v. 1.-
An aged person; one who lived at an earlier period; a predecessor.
Carry your head as your elders have done.
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A person who, on account of his age, occupies the office of ruler or judge; hence, a person occupying any office appropriate to such as have the experience and dignity which age confers; as, the elders of Israel; the elders of the synagogue; the elders in the apostolic church.
Note: In the modern Presbyterian churches, elders are lay officers who, with the minister, compose the church session, with authority to inspect and regulate matters of religion and discipline. In some churches, pastors or clergymen are called elders, or presbyters.
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(M. E. Ch.) A clergyman authorized to administer all the sacraments; as, a traveling elder.
Presiding elder (Meth. Ch.), an elder commissioned by a bishop to have the oversight of the churches and preachers in a certain district.
Ruling elder, a lay presbyter or member of a Presbyterian church session.
--Schaff.
Rectoral \Rec"tor*al\ (-al), a. [CF. F. rectoral.] Pertaining to a rector or governor.
Flippantly \Flip"pant*ly\, adv. In a flippant manner.
Wiktionary
n. (plural of frangipani English)
n. (plural of launderer English)
n. (context physics chemistry English) The international, standard conditions used to aid reproducibility; a temperature of 0 °C (273.15 K) and a pressure of 1 atmosphere (101.325 kPa). Abbreviated as STP.
vb. (context archaic English) (en-third-person singularspin)
a. Pertaining to a rector or governor.
adv. In a flippant manner.
WordNet
adv. in a flippant manner; "he answered the reporters' questions flippantly"; "this cannot be airily explained to your children" [syn: airily]
Usage examples of "flippantly".
It seemed to me that lightly and flippantly we had approached the most real and august of sacraments, that communion with the dead of which the fathers of the Church had spoken.
Although he threw the news out flippantly, she could tell he was concerned.
I remember when Bentley had a burning boyish admiration for Professor Huxley, and when that scientist died some foolish friend asked him quite flippantly in a letter what he felt about it.
He had inadvertently spoken to her as flippantly as he used to when he subvocalized so she could overhear him through the jewel.
Andrew was about to answer flippantly when Celia stopped him with a gesture.
And when he boasted of his subtle discriminations, though he boasted flippantly, he spoke no less than the truth.
Spencer wondered rather flippantly whether this was Jill's prime attractive feature - that she was the only woman in the world who would tolerate being made love to by a man still wearing his socks.
And all the while that this agonized questioning went on within him, he talked flippantly to Conrad, enraging the cross-grained doorkeeper to the point of homicidal mania.
Flippantly described as a `tough cookie heroine', she will certainly kill in a tight corner, but is also sensitive, compassionate and the deliverer of some of the best wise-cracks in the genre`Her impending nuptials had lowered her IQ several critical points,' being a typical example.