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Priest :: Priest (n.) A presbyter; one who belongs to the intermediate order between bishop and deacon. He is authorized to perform all ministerial services except those of ordination and confirmation.

Offertory :: Offertory (n.) That part of the Mass which the priest reads before uncovering the chalice to offer up the elements for consecration.

Pontifex :: Pontifex (n.) A high priest; a pontiff.

Confess :: Confess (v. t.) To hear or receive such confession; -- said of a priest.

Prestimony :: Prestimony (n.) A fund for the support of a priest, without the title of a benefice. The patron in the collator..

Pentecostals :: Pentecostals (n. pl.) Offerings formerly made to the parish priest, or to the mother church, at Pentecost..

Laocoon :: Laocoon (n.) A marble group in the Vatican at Rome, representing the priest Laocoon, with his sons, infolded in the coils of two serpents, as described by Virgil..

Priesthood :: Priesthood (n.) Priests, taken collectively; the order of men set apart for sacred offices; the order of priests..

Pontificate :: Pontificate (n.) The state or dignity of a high priest; specifically, the office of the pope..

Pome :: Pome (n.) A ball of silver or other metal, which is filled with hot water, and used by the priest in cold weather to warm his hands during the service..

Priestliness :: Priestliness (n.) The quality or state of being priestly.

Episcopacy :: Episcopacy (n.) Government of the church by bishops; church government by three distinct orders of ministers -- bishops, priests, and deacons -- of whom the bishops have an authority superior and of a different kind..

Priestery :: Priestery (n.) Priests, collectively; the priesthood; -- so called in contempt..

Propaganda :: Propaganda (n.) The college of the Propaganda, instituted by Urban VIII. (1623-1644) to educate priests for missions in all parts of the world..

Nethinim :: Nethinim (n. pl.) Servants of the priests and Levites in the menial services about the tabernacle and temple.

Pontiff :: Pontiff (n.) A high priest.

Pythoness :: Pythoness (n.) The priestess who gave oracular answers at Delphi in Greece.

Presbyter :: Presbyter (n.) One ordained to the second order in the ministry; -- called also priest.

Confessional :: Confessional (n.) The recess, seat, or inclosed place, where a priest sits to hear confessions; often a small structure furnished with a seat for the priest and with a window or aperture so that the penitent who is outside may whisper into the priest's ear without being seen by him or heard by others..

Imaum :: Imaum (n.) Among the Mohammedans, a minister or priest who performs the regular service of the mosque..

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