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Pontific :: Pontific (a.) Relating to, or consisting of, pontiffs or priests..

Laocoon :: Laocoon (n.) A priest of Apollo, during the Trojan war. (See 2.).

Paulist :: Paulist (n.) A member of The Institute of the Missionary Priests of St. Paul the Apostle, founded in 1858 by the Rev. I. T. Hecker of New York. The majority of the members were formerly Protestants..

Corybant :: Corybant (n.) One of the priests of Cybele in Phrygia. The rites of the Corybants were accompanied by wild music, dancing, etc..

Ecclesiastic :: Ecclesiastic (n.) A person in holy orders, or consecrated to the service of the church and the ministry of religion; a clergyman; a priest..

Gospeler :: Gospeler (n.) A priest or deacon who reads the gospel at the altar during the communion service.

Leviticus :: Leviticus (n.) The third canonical book of the Old Testament, containing the laws and regulations relating to the priests and Levites among the Hebrews, or the body of the ceremonial law..

Levite :: Levite (n.) One of the tribe or family of Levi; a descendant of Levi; esp., one subordinate to the priests (who were of the same tribe) and employed in various duties connected with the tabernacle first, and afterward the temple, such as the care of the building, bringing of wood and other necessaries for the sacrifices, the music of the services, etc..

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

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

Confessionalist :: Confessionalist (n.) A priest hearing, or sitting to hear, confession..

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

Presbytery :: Presbytery (n.) The residence of a priest or clergyman.

Synodal :: Synodal (n.) A tribute in money formerly paid to the bishop or archdeacon, at the time of his Easter visitation, by every parish priest, now made to the ecclesiastical commissioners; a procuration..

Intonation :: Intonation (n.) Reciting in a musical prolonged tone; intonating, or singing of the opening phrase of a plain-chant, psalm, or canticle by a single voice, as of a priest. See Intone, v. t..

Papboat :: Papboat (n.) A large spiral East Indian marine shell (Turbinella rapha); -- so called because used by native priests to hold the oil for anointing.

Gremial :: Gremial (n.) A cloth, often adorned with gold or silver lace, placed on the bishop's lap while he sits in celebrating mass, or in ordaining priests..

Priest :: Priest (v. t.) To ordain as priest.

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

Quietist :: Quietist (n.) One of a sect of mystics originated in the seventeenth century by Molinos, a Spanish priest living in Rome. See Quietism..

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