Priest Synonyms & Definitions

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• PriestDefinition & Meaning in English

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.

• PriestcraftDefinition & Meaning in English

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.

• PriestingDefinition & Meaning in English

1. (n.) The office of a priest.