Word Meanings - PRIESTLESS - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Without a priest. Pope.
Related words: (words related to PRIESTLESS)
- 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.