Priest Meaning in Spanish

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Definition & Synonyms
• Priest Definition & Meaning
  1. (n.) A presbyter elder; a minister
  2. (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.
  3. (n.) One who is authorized to consecrate the host and to say Mass; but especially, one of the lowest order possessing this power.
  4. (v. t.) To ordain as priest.
  5. (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-ridden Definition & Meaning
  1. (a.) Controlled or oppressed by priests; as, a priest-ridden people.

• Priestcap Definition & Meaning
  1. (n.) A form of redan, so named from its shape; -- called also swallowtail.

• Priestcraft Definition & Meaning
  1. (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 Definition & Meaning
  1. (n.) Priests, collectively; the priesthood; -- so called in contempt.

• Priestess Definition & Meaning
  1. (n.) A woman who officiated in sacred rites among pagans.

• Priesthood Definition & Meaning
  1. (n.) The office or character of a priest; the priestly function.
  2. (n.) Priests, taken collectively; the order of men set apart for sacred offices; the order of priests.

• Priesting Definition & Meaning
  1. (n.) The office of a priest.

• Priestism Definition & Meaning
  1. (n.) The influence, doctrines, principles, etc., of priests or the priesthood.

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