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Priesting :: Priesting (n.) The office of a priest.

Confession :: Confession (n.) The act of disclosing sins or faults to a priest in order to obtain sacramental absolution.

Pope :: Pope (n.) A parish priest, or a chaplain, of the Greek Church..

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..

Ordinal :: Ordinal (n.) The book of forms for making, ordaining, and consecrating bishops, priests, and deacons..

Priest-ridden :: Priest-ridden (a.) Controlled or oppressed by priests; as, a priest-ridden people..

Showbread :: Showbread (n.) Bread of exhibition; loaves to set before God; -- the term used in translating the various phrases used in the Hebrew and Greek to designate the loaves of bread which the priest of the week placed before the Lord on the golden table in the sanctuary. They were made of fine flour unleavened, and were changed every Sabbath. The loaves, twelve in number, represented the twelve tribes of Israel. They were to be eaten by the priests only, and in the Holy Place..

Prebendal :: Prebendal (a.) Of or pertaining to a prebend; holding a prebend; as, a prebendal priest or stall..

Shrift :: Shrift (n.) Confession made to a priest, and the absolution consequent upon it..

Secularize :: Secularize (v. t.) To convert from regular or monastic into secular; as, to secularize a priest or a monk..

Flamen :: Flamen (n.) A priest devoted to the service of a particular god, from whom he received a distinguishing epithet. The most honored were those of Jupiter, Mars, and Quirinus, called respectively Flamen Dialis, Flamen Martialis, and Flamen Quirinalis..

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

Aaronical :: Aaronical (a.) Pertaining to Aaron, the first high priest of the Jews..

Shrive :: Shrive (v. t.) To hear or receive the confession of; to administer confession and absolution to; -- said of a priest as the agent.

Hagiocracy :: Hagiocracy (n.) Government by a priesthood; hierarchy.

Bonze :: Bonze (n.) A Buddhist or Fohist priest, monk, or nun..

Title :: Title (n.) A church to which a priest was ordained, and where he was to reside..

High-priestship :: High-priestship (n.) High-priesthood.

Confessant :: Confessant (n.) One who confesses to a priest.

Postcomminion :: Postcomminion (n.) A prayer or prayers which the priest says at Mass, after the ablutions..

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