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Elder   /ˈɛldər/   Listen
Elder

adjective
1.
Used of the older of two persons of the same name especially used to distinguish a father from his son.  Synonyms: older, sr..
noun
1.
A person who is older than you are.  Synonym: senior.
2.
Any of numerous shrubs or small trees of temperate and subtropical northern hemisphere having white flowers and berrylike fruit.  Synonym: elderberry bush.
3.
Any of various church officers.



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... restricted to Cornelius and Tausig, who was at last restored to health, although he disappeared from my sight for some time owing to his intercourse with wealthy Austrian officers. But I was frequently joined on my excursions by the younger Porges, and for a time by the elder also. My niece Ottilie Brockhaus too, who was living with the family of her mother's friend Heinrich Laube, occasionally ...
— My Life, Volume II • Richard Wagner

... associations. It would seem, indeed, to have been an impressive and edifying function, and that reasonable exception can be taken to it only on the score of childishness, and the absence of any warrant from Scripture, apart from the rather doubtful sanction of St. Paul's words, "The elder shall serve ...
— The Customs of Old England • F. J. Snell

... and their sunburnt faces kissed, with a rapture amazing to strangers of the household. They were travelling (as the younger remarked in an accent which betrayed his Teutonic origin) to "Pennsylwany," the home of the elder; and they had come thus far out of their way ...
— Cudjo's Cave • J. T. Trowbridge

... made a good recovery. Vanderpool of Bellevue Hospital, N.Y., describes a fracture of the odontoid process caused by a fall on the back of the head; death, however, did not ensue until six months later. According to Ashhurst, Philips, the elder Cline, Willard Parker, Bayard, Stephen Smith, May, and several other surgeons, have recorded complete recovery after fracture of the atlas and axis. The same author also adds that statistic investigation ...
— Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine • George M. Gould

... who had been the bully of the school, but who was now a homeless wanderer on the face of the earth. Baxter came from a disreputable family, his father having at one time tried to swindle Mr. Rover out of a rich gold mine in the West. The elder Baxter was now in prison suffering the ...
— The Rover Boys on Land and Sea - The Crusoes of Seven Islands • Arthur M. Winfield


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