Word Meanings - UNPRIEST - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To deprive of priesthood; to unfrock. Milton.

DEPRIVEMENT
Deprivation.
UNFROCK
To deprive or divest or a frock; specifically, to deprive of priestly character or privilege; as, to unfrock a priest.
DEPRIVER
One who, or that which, deprives.
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.
DEPRIVE
1. To take away; to put an end; to destroy. 'Tis honor to deprive dishonored life. Shak. 2. To dispossess; to bereave; to divest; to hinder from possessing; to debar; to shut out from; -- with a remoter object, usually preceded by of. God hath
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.