:of or relating to a Christian church in Scotland, the U.S., and other countries that is officially led by a group of ministers and elders (called a presbytery)(苏格兰、美国等国基督教会中)长老会的
often not capitalized: characterized by a graded system of representative ecclesiastical bodies (such as presbyteries) exercising legislative and judicial powers
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: of, relating to, or constituting a Protestant Christian church that is presbyterian in government and traditionally Calvinistic in doctrine