eldership

The position of being elder or senior; seniority, precedence of birth, primogeniture.

Primogenitura, or eldership of birth, was greatly respected by God.

My claim to her by Eldership I prove.

The personality of an elderly person.

So irresistible to their elderships to be flattered.

The office or position of elder in a church.

The office of eldership is equallie distributed betweene the bishop and the minister.

He was deposed from his Eldership.

The collective body of (ecclesiastical) elders; a body or court of elders, a presbytery.

That gyft, which was geuen thee by prophecie with the laying on of the handes, by the Eldership.

They that tyrannize not over, but be subject to their particulare elderships.

The smallest administrative division in Lithuania, equivalent to a ward.

The local governmental system in Lithuania has passed through several changes since the restoration of independence, and its future is still being debated. There are three levels of local government: apskritys (plural apskritis, usually translated as “counties”); municipalities; and elderates, sometimes given as elderships.