a local council of the Presbyterian Church 教务评议会 a house where a Roman Catholic priest lives 本堂神父住宅 part of a church, near the east end, beyond the choir 司祭席
Word Originlate Middle English (in sense (3)): from Old French presbiterie, via ecclesiastical Latin from Greek presbuterion, from presbuteros ‘elder’ (used in the New Testament to denote an elder of the early church), comparative of presbus ‘old (man)’.