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

Seminarist :: Seminarist (n.) A member of, or one educated in, a seminary; specifically, an ecclesiastic educated for the priesthood in a seminary..

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

Maenad :: Maenad (n.) A Bacchante; a priestess or votary of Bacchus.

Cure :: Cure (n.) Spiritual charge; care of soul; the office of a parish priest or of a curate; hence, that which is committed to the charge of a parish priest or of a curate; a curacy; as, to resign a cure; to obtain a cure..

Lazarite :: Lazarite (n.) One of the Congregation of the Priests of the Mission, a religious institute founded by Vincent de Paul in 1624, and popularly called Lazarists or Lazarites from the College of St. Lazare in Paris, which was occupied by them until 1792..

Organist :: Organist (n.) One of the priests who organized or sung in parts.

Office :: Office (n.) A charge or trust, of a sacred nature, conferred by God himself; as, the office of a priest under the old dispensation, and that of the apostles in the new..

Parish :: Parish (n.) An ecclesiastical society, usually not bounded by territorial limits, but composed of those persons who choose to unite under the charge of a particular priest, clergyman, or minister; also, loosely, the territory in which the members of a congregation live..

Pluvial :: Pluvial (n.) A priest's cope.

Sacerdotalism :: Sacerdotalism (m.) The system, style, spirit, or character, of a priesthood, or sacerdotal order; devotion to the interests of the sacerdotal order..

Order :: Order (n.) An ecclesiastical grade or rank, as of deacon, priest, or bishop; the office of the Christian ministry; -- often used in the plural; as, to take orders, or to take holy orders, that is, to enter some grade of the ministry..

Protopope :: Protopope (n.) One of the clergy of first rank in the lower order of secular clergy; an archpriest; -- called also protopapas.

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

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

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

Thummim :: Thummim (n. pl.) A mysterious part or decoration of the breastplate of the Jewish high priest. See the note under Urim.

Levitical :: Levitical (a.) Priestly.

Penitential :: Penitential (n.) A book formerly used by priests hearing confessions, containing rules for the imposition of penances; -- called also penitential book..

Bacchant :: Bacchant (n.) A priest of Bacchus.

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