kirk session

noun

1. the lowest court of the Presbyterian Church

Example Sentences

Rutherford thinks he has put his finger upon some such saintly liars in the kirk-session of Kilmacolm.

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Those irregular marriages were in the eighteenth century a great source of trouble and annoyance to the Kirk Session of Kelso.

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The first court in existence was the Kirk-Session; it was in being in every organised congregation.

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Again and again we find in the pages of the Kirk Session Records reflections of the history of the time.

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But let us turn again to the Kirk Session Records, than which we can find no better sources of information.

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