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Ordinal :: Ordinal (n.) The book of forms for making, ordaining, and consecrating bishops, priests, and deacons..

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..

Powpow :: Powpow (n.) A priest, or conjurer, among the North American Indians..

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

Annueler :: Annueler (n.) A priest employed in saying annuals, or anniversary Masses..

Hieroglyphic :: Hieroglyphic (a.) A sacred character; a character in picture writing, as of the ancient Egyptians, Mexicans, etc. Specifically, in the plural, the picture writing of the ancient Egyptian priests. It is made up of three, or, as some say, four classes of characters: first, the hieroglyphic proper, or figurative, in which the representation of the object conveys the idea of the object itself; second, the ideographic, consisting of symbols representing ideas, not sounds, as an ostrich feather is a s

Papboat :: Papboat (n.) A large spiral East Indian marine shell (Turbinella rapha); -- so called because used by native priests to hold the oil for anointing.

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

Responsory :: Responsory (n.) A versicle sung in answer to the priest, or as a refrain..

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

Celebrant :: Celebrant (n.) One who performs a public religious rite; -- applied particularly to an officiating priest in the Roman Catholic Church, as distinguished from his assistants..

Penitencer :: Penitencer (n.) A priest who heard confession and enjoined penance in extraordinary cases.

Zuchetto :: Zuchetto (n.) A skullcap covering the tonsure, worn under the berretta. The pope's is white; a cardinal's red; a bishop's purple; a priest's black..

Auricular :: Auricular (a.) Told in the ear, i. e., told privately; as, auricular confession to the priest..

Quietist :: Quietist (n.) One of a sect of mystics originated in the seventeenth century by Molinos, a Spanish priest living in Rome. See Quietism..

Fohist :: Fohist (n.) A Buddhist priest. See Fo.

Leviticus :: Leviticus (n.) The third canonical book of the Old Testament, containing the laws and regulations relating to the priests and Levites among the Hebrews, or the body of the ceremonial law..

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

Priestlike :: Priestlike (a.) Priestly.

Breastplate :: Breastplate (n.) A part of the vestment of the high priest, worn upon the front of the ephod. It was a double piece of richly embroidered stuff, a span square, set with twelve precious stones, on which were engraved the names of the twelve tribes of Israel. See Ephod..

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