Word Finder - elder

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An older person or an older member, usually a leader, of some community.

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We were presented to the village elder.

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One who is older than another.

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Respect your elders.

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One who lived at an earlier period; a predecessor.

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An officer of a church, sometimes having teaching responsibilities.

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A clergyman authorized to administer all the sacraments.

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a travelling elder

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One ordained to the lowest office in the Melchizedek priesthood.

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After being a member of the Church for a while, Bill was ordained to the office of elder.

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Male missionary.

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The elders are coming over for dinner tonight.

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(often capitalized) Title for a male missionary; title for a general authority.

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One of the long-time leaders in the Church is Elder Packer.

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A pagan or Heathen priest or priestess.

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To admonish or reprove for improper conduct by the elders of the meeting.

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I was eldered for directly responding to someone else's message in meeting for worship.

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Of an object, concept, relationship, etc., having existed for a relatively long period of time.

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an old abandoned building;  an old friend

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Having been used and thus no longer new or unused.

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I find that an old toothbrush is good to clean the keyboard with.

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Having existed or lived for the specified time.

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How old are they? She’s five years old and he's seven. We also have a young teen and a two-year-old child.

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(heading) Of an earlier time.

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Tiresome after prolonged repetition.

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Your constant pestering is getting old.

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Said of subdued colors, particularly reds, pinks and oranges, as if they had faded over time.

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A grammatical intensifier, often used in describing something positive. (Mostly in idioms like good old, big old and little old, any old and some old.)

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We're having a good old time. My next car will be a big old SUV.  My wife makes the best little old apple pie in Texas.

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Excessive, abundant.

When she entered again, the elder of the two cousins was putting stuff in the fridge.

With her elder sister I was stricter.

He was their elder, the peacemaker, and the executioner.

Wild ginger, elder and sumach are common, and in the mountain areas, rhododendrons, mountain laurel and azaleas.

Paul, who appeared to be the elder brother, was a robust figure who never closed his mouth even while eating.

The elder line was soon extinct.

Who is your Elder here?

He made his home with his elder brother Piero at Florence throughout the agitation of Savonarola and the invasion of Charles VIII.

As the elder brother, he took his role seriously, even if it was the only thing he put any effort into.

Nicholas went out into the porch to question him, and immediately after the elder had given a few replies the sound of cries and blows were heard.

Then he vividly pictured to himself Bogucharovo, his occupations in the country, his journey to Ryazan; he remembered the peasants and Dron the village elder, and mentally applying to them the Personal Rights he had divided into paragraphs, he felt astonished that he could have spent so much time on such useless work.

Its main features were strictly Presbyterian, but the minister was greatly superior to the elder, and the state had wide powers especially in the nomination of higher officers.

Their elder son, George William Frederick (1775-1838), succeeded his father as duke of Leeds and his mother as Baron Conyers.

He also wrote a life of Caesar and the elder Scipio.

He assisted the elder Calamy in writing Smectymnuus (1641), and preached before parliament in 1643.

On seeing the young master, the elder one with frightened look clutched her younger companion by the hand and hid with her behind a birch tree, not stopping to pick up some green plums they had dropped.

Paul Dawkins was only a smidgen more pleasant than his elder brother as Dean, lugging the heavy monitor, passed him entering the parlor.

He was the young tsar Peter's chief supporter when, in 1689, Peter resisted the usurpations of his elder sister Sophia, and the head of the loyal council which assembled at the Troitsa monastery during the crisis of the struggle.

In 1760 the elder Rousseau established here the famous press of the Encyclopaedists.

The colloque consisted of one minister and one elder from each congregation.

After acting as assistant in pharmacies at Quedlinburg, Hanover, Berlin and Danzig successively he came to Berlin on the death of Valentin Rose the elder in 1771 as manager of his business, and in 1780 he started an establishment on his own account in the same city, where from 1782 he was pharmaceutical assessor of the Ober-Collegium Medicum.

There is no record of the elder Sanson's death.

As dawn broke across the sky, the elder demon who possessed Memon spoke to him.

Shortly after this, however, all the northern princes submitted to Edward the Elder.

The two quarrelled and the younger stabbed the elder.

After her death he married Eadgyfu (Odgiva), daughter of Edward the Elder, king of the English, who was the mother of Louis IV.

Abroad its navigators monopolized the commerce of the world, and explored unknown seas; at home the Dutch school of painting reached its acme in Rembrandt (1607-1669); and the philological reputation of the country was sustained by Grotius, Vossius and the elder Heinsius.

Educated at Reading school and at Winchester college, Henry Vansittart joined the society of the Franciscans, or the "Hellfire club," at Medmenham, his elder brothers, Arthur and Robert, being also members of this fraternity.

The general assembly is representative of the whole Church, either, as in the Irish General Assembly, by a minister and elder sent direct to it from every congregation, or, as in the Scottish General Assemblies, by a proportion of dele- Assembly.

The elders were different from the deacons, but there is no indication that any one elder was of higher rank than the others.

Yet even in a church court inequality, generally speaking, is visible to the extent that an elder is not usually eligible for the moderator's chair.

The duty of teaching and of administering the sacraments and of always presiding in church courts being strictly reserved to him invests his office with a dignity and influence greater than that of the elder.

Next in order was the provincial synod which consisted of a minister and an elder or deacon from each church in the province.

Such a system gave to the elder men of a tribe a predominant position, and generally respect was shown to the aged.

Mothers had the same rights in the absence .of the father; even elder brothers when both parents were dead.

This, while the elder branch of the Hauteville family still held the title and domains of the Apulian duchy; but in 1127, upon the death of his cousin Duke William, Roger united the whole of the future realm.

But little time was lost by the elder Gibbon in the formation of a new plan of education for his son, and in devising some method which if possible might effect the cure of his "spiritual malady."

A colony with Latin rights was founded on Pontiae in 313 B.C. Nero, Germanicus's eldest son, and the sisters of Caligula, were confined upon it; while Pandateria was the place of banishment of Julia, daughter of Augustus, of her daughter Agrippina the elder, and of Octavia, the divorced wife of Nero.

His elder brother was drowned in the Thames in the following year; and in 1814, on the death of his father, he took his seat in the House of Lords as Baron Auckland.

Through an elder line from Neill Mor was descended Brian Mac Phelim O'Neill, who was treacherously seized in 1573 by the earl of Essex, whom he was hospitably entertaining, and executed together with his wife and brother, some two hundred of his clan being at the same time massacred by the orders of Essex.

The elder took monastic orders under the name of Sergius, and became famous among the peasants around.

His elder brother had been the husband of the heiress Sibylla; and on the death of Sibylla, who had carried the crown to Guy de Lusignan by her second marriage, Conrad married her younger sister, Isabella, now the heiress of the kingdom, and claimed the crown (1190).

Hyrcanus her elder son was only high priest, as the stricter Pharisees required.

It is mainly famous as the residence of the elder Scipio, who withdrew from Rome and died here.

At the end of the reign of Edward the Elder (925) the Britons of Strathclyde submitted to that king together with all the other princes of the north.

Louis Charles became dauphin on the death of his elder brother on the 4th of June 1789.

Henry Seymour Conway's elder brother, Francis, 2nd Baron Conway, was created marquess of Hertford in 1793; his mother was a sister of Sir Robert Walpole's wife, and he was therefore first cousin to Horace Walpole, with whom he was on terms of intimate friendship throughout his life.

He gave strenuous support to the Spartans; evidently he had already then formed the design, in which he was supported by his mother, of gaining the throne for himself after the death of his father; he pretended to have stronger claims to it than his elder brother Artaxerxes, who was not born in the purple.

Daniel was a frail but clever child, and his family made great sacrifices to give him and his elder brother Ezekiel a good education.

By the death of his elder brother, killed near Ticonderoga on the 6th of July 1758, he became Viscount Howe - an Irish peerage.