[f. ELDER sb.3 + -HOOD.] a. The position or estate of an elder, seniority. b. The estate of the elders or rulers; the body of elders.
1597. Daniel, Civ. Wares, VII. lxxvi. No elderhood, Rufus and Henrie stayes The imperial Crowne … t’undertake.
1860. Ellicott, Life our Lord, vii. 346. The Nazarene was … a blasphemer in the face of the elderhood of Israel.
