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Word Meanings - PRIESTLESS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Without a priest. Pope.

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  • PRIESTLIKE
    Priestly. B. Jonson.
  • PRIESTING
    The office of a priest. Milton.
  • WITHOUT-DOOR
    Outdoor; exterior. "Her without-door form." Shak.
  • WITHOUTFORTH
    Without; outside' outwardly. Cf. Withinforth. Chaucer.
  • 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.
  • PRIESTCAP
    A form of redan, so named from its shape; -- called also swallowtail.
  • WITHOUTEN
    Without. Chaucer.
  • 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
  • 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.
  • WITHOUT
    1. On or at the outside of; out of; not within; as, without doors. Without the gate Some drive the cars, and some the coursers rein. Dryden. 2. Out of the limits of; out of reach of; beyond. Eternity, before the world and after, is without our
  • 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.
  • HIGH-PRIESTHOOD
    The office, dignity, or position of a high priest.
  • UNPRIEST
    To deprive of priesthood; to unfrock. Milton.
  • HIGH-PRIESTSHIP
    High-priesthood.
  • ARCHPRIEST
    A chief priest; also, a kind of vicar, or a rural dean.
  • HIGH PRIEST
    A chief priest; esp., the head of the Jewish priesthood.

 

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