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Imaum :: Imaum (n.) Among the Mohammedans, a minister or priest who performs the regular service of the mosque..

Presbytery :: Presbytery (n.) The residence of a priest or clergyman.

Druid :: Druid (n.) One of an order of priests which in ancient times existed among certain branches of the Celtic race, especially among the Gauls and Britons..

Confess :: Confess (v. t.) To make known or acknowledge, as one's sins to a priest, in order to receive absolution; -- sometimes followed by the reflexive pronoun..

Organist :: Organist (n.) One of the priests who organized or sung in parts.

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

Tonsure :: Tonsure (n.) The shaven corona, or crown, which priests wear as a mark of their order and of their rank..

Secularize :: Secularize (v. t.) To convert from regular or monastic into secular; as, to secularize a priest or a monk..

Confessional :: Confessional (n.) The recess, seat, or inclosed place, where a priest sits to hear confessions; often a small structure furnished with a seat for the priest and with a window or aperture so that the penitent who is outside may whisper into the priest's ear without being seen by him or heard by others..

Pontifex :: Pontifex (n.) A high priest; a pontiff.

Lama :: Lama (n.) In Thibet, Mongolia, etc., a priest or monk of the belief called Lamaism..

Seminarist :: Seminarist (n.) A member of, or one educated in, a seminary; specifically, an ecclesiastic educated for the priesthood in a seminary..

Hiermartyr :: Hiermartyr (n.) A priest who becomes a martyr.

Reverence :: Reverence (n.) A person entitled to be revered; -- a title applied to priests or other ministers with the pronouns his or your; sometimes poetically to a father.

Parish :: Parish (n.) An ecclesiastical society, usually not bounded by territorial limits, but composed of those persons who choose to unite under the charge of a particular priest, clergyman, or minister; also, loosely, the territory in which the members of a congregation live..

Pythonism :: Pythonism (n.) The art of predicting events after the manner of the priestess of Apollo at Delphi; equivocal prophesying.

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

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

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

Absolution :: Absolution (n.) The exercise of priestly jurisdiction in the sacrament of penance, by which Catholics believe the sins of the truly penitent are forgiven..

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