English to English Dictionary -priests

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Archpriest :: Archpriest (n.) A chief priest; also, a kind of vicar, or a rural dean..

High Priest :: High priest () A chief priest; esp., the head of the Jewish priesthood..

High-priesthood :: High-priesthood (n.) The office, dignity, or position of a high priest..

High-priestship :: High-priestship (n.) High-priesthood.

Priest :: Priest (n.) A presbyter elder; a ministe.

Priest :: Priest (n.) One who is authorized to consecrate the host and to say Mass; but especially, one of the lowest order possessing this power..

Priest :: Priest (n.) A presbyter; one who belongs to the intermediate order between bishop and deacon. He is authorized to perform all ministerial services except those of ordination and confirmation.

Priest :: Priest (n.) One who officiates at the altar, or performs the rites of sacrifice; one who acts as a mediator between men and the divinity or the gods in any form of religion; as, Buddhist priests..

Priest :: Priest (v. t.) To ordain as priest.

Priest-ridden :: Priest-ridden (a.) Controlled or oppressed by priests; as, a priest-ridden people..

Priestcap :: Priestcap (n.) A form of redan, so named from its shape; -- called also swallowtail..

Priestcraft :: Priestcraft (n.) Priestly policy; the policy of a priesthood; esp., in an ill sense, fraud or imposition in religious concerns; management by priests to gain wealth and power by working upon the religious motives or credulity of others..

Priestery :: Priestery (n.) Priests, collectively; the priesthood; -- so called in contempt..

Priestess :: Priestess (n.) A woman who officiated in sacred rites among pagans.

Priesthood :: Priesthood (n.) The office or character of a priest; the priestly function.

Priesthood :: Priesthood (n.) Priests, taken collectively; the order of men set apart for sacred offices; the order of priests..

Priesting :: Priesting (n.) The office of a priest.

Priestism :: Priestism (n.) The influence, doctrines, principles, etc., of priests or the priesthood..

Priestless :: Priestless (a.) Without a priest.

Priestlike :: Priestlike (a.) Priestly.

Priestliness :: Priestliness (n.) The quality or state of being priestly.

Priestly :: Priestly (a.) Of or pertaining to a priest or the priesthood; sacerdotal; befitting or becoming a priest; as, the priestly office; a priestly farewell..

Unpriest :: Unpriest (v. t.) To deprive of priesthood; to unfrock.