Priest Meaning in Spanish
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Definition & Synonyms
• Priest
Definition & Meaning
- (n.) A presbyter elder; a minister
- (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.
- (n.) One who is authorized to consecrate the host and to say Mass; but especially, one of the lowest order possessing this power.
- (v. t.) To ordain as 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-ridden
Definition & Meaning
- (a.) Controlled or oppressed by priests; as, a priest-ridden people.
• Priestcap
Definition & Meaning
- (n.) A form of redan, so named from its shape; -- called also swallowtail.
• Priestcraft
Definition & Meaning
- (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
- (n.) Priests, collectively; the priesthood; -- so called in contempt.
• Priestess
Definition & Meaning
- (n.) A woman who officiated in sacred rites among pagans.
• Priesthood
Definition & Meaning
- (n.) The office or character of a priest; the priestly function.
- (n.) Priests, taken collectively; the order of men set apart for sacred offices; the order of priests.
• Priesting
Definition & Meaning
- (n.) The office of a priest.
• Priestism
Definition & Meaning
- (n.) The influence, doctrines, principles, etc., of priests or the priesthood.
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