priest
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English prest, preest, from Old English prēost (“priest”), from Late Latin presbyter, from Ancient Greek πρεσβύτερος (presbúteros), from πρέσβυς (présbus, “elder, older”). Reinforced in Middle English by Old French prestre, also from Latin presbyter. Doublet of presbyter and prester.
* The Tyndale Bible uses native English elder instead.
Inflected forms:
form: priests
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: priests
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: priesting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: priested
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: priested
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A religious clergyman (clergywoman, clergyperson) who is trained to perform services or sacrifices at a church or temple.
pos: noun
examples: The priest at the Catholic church heard his confession.
The Shinto priest burnt incense for his ancestors.
The Israelite priests were descended from Moses' brother Aaron.
It was a joy to snatch some brief respite, and find himself in the rectory drawing–room. Listening here was as pleasant as talking; just to watch was pleasant. The young priests who lived here wore cassocks and birettas; their faces were fine and mild, yet really strong, like the rector's face; and in their intercourse with him and his wife they seemed to be brothers.
The church was tighening up on matters sexual. Until the middle of the tenth century it had been quite routine for priests to be married.
gloss: A blunt tool, used for quickly stunning and killing fish.
pos: noun
examples: They flop and struggle, but she unhooks them swiftly, stunning them with a small brass priest.
gloss: The highest office in the Aaronic priesthood.
pos: noun
tags: Mormonism
gloss: To ordain as a priest.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: If there bee any lasie fellow, any that cannot away with worke, any that would wallow in pleasures, hee is hastie to be priested. And when hee is made one, and has gotten a benefice, he consorts with his neighbour priests, who are altogether given to pleasures; and then both hee, and they, live, not like Christians, but like epicures; drinking, eating, feasting, and revelling, till the cow come home, as the saying is.
He was deaconed on the 23rd May, and priested on the 29th September, 1624, by John, Bishop of Sodar and Man.
Chapman was a lay missionary and was not deaconed until 1844 and priested in 1852.
Thus, Samuel Seabury... was deaconed by the Bishop of Lincoln and priested by the Bishop of Carlisle.
Derived words: a dumb priest never got a parish
antipriest
archpriest
archpriesthood
astronomer-priest
brown priest
chief priest
choke-priest
die roaring for a priest
fetish priest
head priest
hedge priest
highpriest
high priest
high priestess
highpriesthood
highpriestly
highpriestship
hypepriest
kill-priest
mass priest
parish priest
priestal
priestcap
priestcraft
priest-doctor
priestdom
priestery
priestess
Priestfield
priest hole
priesthood
priestianity
priestish
priestism
priest-king
priestless
priestlet
priestlike
priestliness
priestling
priestly
priest-monk
priestress
priest-ridden
priestship
priestx
protopriest
proto-priest
religious priest
supply priest
underpriest
unpriest
worker-priest
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