nonce-wd. [f. ARCH- 4 + PRESBYTERY: see prec.] ‘The absolute dominion of presbytery.’ T.; full-blown presbyterianism.
1649. Milton, Eikon., xiii. Wks. 1857, 444. Not Presbytery but Arch-Presbytery, Classical, Provincial, and Diocesan Presbytery, claiming to it self a Lordly power.
