Obs. [a. L. compresbyter (in Augustine, etc.): see COM-.] A fellow presbyter: cf. CO-PRESBYTER (in CO- pref.).

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[1532.  More, Confut. Tindale, Wks. 426/1. Saynt Hierome was rather contente to ioyn the latine coniunccion with the Greke woorde, and call it compresbyter.]

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a. 1600.  Hooker, Eccl. Pol., VII. vii. § 1. Donatus, and Fortunatus, and Novatus, and Gordius, our com-presbyters.

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1606.  Whetenhall, Disc. Abuses in Ch., 86. Peter Martyr his combresbyter or fellow Elder.

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1637–50.  Row, Hist. Kirk (1842), 255. Mr. George Grame a compresbyter, minister at Scoone.

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  Hence Compresbyterial a., of or pertaining to a session or body of presbyters.

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1641.  Milton, Ch. Discipl., I. (1851), 11. Coequall and compresbyteriall Power to ordaine Ministers and Deacons.

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