Word Meanings - PRIESTING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The office of a priest. Milton.

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• PRIESTLIKE
  Priestly. B. Jonson.
• OFFICEHOLDER
  An officer, particularly one in the civil service; a placeman.
• PRIESTING
  The office of a priest. Milton.
• OFFICE WIRE
  Copper wire with a strong but light insulation, used in wiring houses, etc.
• PRIESTESS
  A woman who officiated in sacred rites among pagans. Abp. Potter.
• PRIEST-RIDDEN
  Controlled or oppressed by priests; as, a priest-ridden people. Swift.
• PRIESTISM
  The influence, doctrines, principles, etc., of priests or the priesthood.
• OFFICER
  Specifically, a commissioned officer, in distinction from a warrant officer. Field officer, General officer, etc. See under Field, General. etc. -- Officer of the day , the officer who, on a given day, has charge for that day of the quard,
• PRIESTCAP
  A form of redan, so named from its shape; -- called also swallowtail.
• PRIESTLY
  Of or pertaining to a priest or the priesthood; sacerdotal; befitting or becoming a priest; as, the priestly office; a priestly farewell. Shak.
• PRIESTCRAFT
  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. It is better that men should
• MILTONIAN
  Miltonic. Lowell.
• MILTONIC
  Of, pertaining to, or resembling, Milton, or his writings; as, Miltonic prose.
• PRIESTHOOD
  1. The office or character of a priest; the priestly function. Bk. of Com. Prayer. 2. Priests, taken collectively; the order of men set apart for sacred offices; the order of priests.
• PRIESTLESS
  Without a priest. Pope.
• OFFICE
  The apartments or outhouses in which the domestics discharge the duties attached to the service of a house, as kitchens, pantries, stables, etc. As for the offices, let them stand at distance. Bacon. (more info) 1. That which a person does, either
• PRIEST
  A presbyter elder; a minister; specifically: One who is authorized to consecrate the host and to say Mass; but especially, one of the lowest order possessing this power. Murdock.
• PRIESTERY
  Priests, collectively; the priesthood; -- so called in contempt. Milton.
• PRIESTLINESS
  The quality or state of being priestly. R. Browning.
• POST OFFICE
  See POST
• BOOKING OFFICE
  1. An office where passengers, baggage, etc., are registered for conveyance, as by railway or steamship. 2. An office where passage tickets are sold.
• CROWN OFFICE
  The criminal branch of the Court of King's or Queen's Bench, commonly called the crown side of the court, which takes cognizance of all criminal cases. Burrill.
• HIGH-PRIESTHOOD
  The office, dignity, or position of a high priest.
• HAMILTON PERIOD
  A subdivision of the Devonian system of America; -- so named from Hamilton, Madison Co., New York. It includes the Marcellus, Hamilton, and Genesee epochs or groups. See the Chart of Geology.
• SUBOFFICER
  An under or subordinate officer.
• UNDEROFFICER
  A subordinate officer.