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21priest — 01. She went to church to speak to the [priest] about some problems she was having with her husband. 02. A former [priest] at the local church was arrested for abusing a number of young boys in the 1960s. 03. Voltaire observed that God created… …
22priest — Kahuna (for various kinds, see Haw. Eng. entry and entries that follow it); kahuna pule, kahu akua; papahola (rare). See saying, ololī. ♦ High priest, kahuna nui, kahuna po o. ♦ Medical priest, kahuna lapa au. ♦ Priest of the lineage… …
23priest — Not normally a vocative in modern times, though the Shakespeare plays have plenty of examples of ‘priest’, ‘brother priest’, ‘my priest’, ‘saucy priest’, ‘churlish priest’ used as terms of address. In Bless me, Father, by Neil Boyd, there is a …
24priest — noun 1 in Christianity ADJECTIVE ▪ local, parish, village (esp. BrE) ▪ celibate ▪ married ▪ woman ▪ …
25priest — Presbyter Pres by*ter, n. [L. an elder, fr. Gr. ?. See {Priest}.] [1913 Webster] 1. An elder in the early Christian church. See 2d Citation under {Bishop}, n., 1. [1913 Webster] 2. (Ch. of Eng. & Prot. Epis. Ch.) One ordained to the second order… …
26Priest — Recorded as Priest, Preist, Prest, Prost, and Priestman, this ancient English surname, one of the first ever recorded, has a number of possible origins. As priests were unable to marry, the surname presumably could not belong to a member of the… …
27Priest — Priet, Priest Nom assez répandu dans la Saône et Loire. C est un nom de baptême (latin Praejectus) popularisé par saint Priest : Evêque de Clermont en Auvergne au VIIe siècle, il fonda plusieurs monastères et un hôpital. Comme il avait excommunié …
28priest — [[t]pri͟ːst[/t]] ♦♦♦ priests 1) N COUNT A priest is a member of the Christian clergy in the Catholic, Anglican, or Orthodox church. He had trained to be a Catholic priest. 2) N COUNT In many non Christian religions a priest is a man who has… …
29Priest — The Heb. kohen, Gr. hierus, Lat. sacerdos, always denote one who offers sacrifices. At first every man was his own priest, and presented his own sacrifices before God. Afterwards that office devolved on the head of the family, as in the… …
30priest — I priest, priestess (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. father, clergyman, etc. See clergy. II (Roget s IV) n. Syn. clergyman, cleric, minister, man of the cloth, reverend. Names for priests in various sects include: father, father… …
