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

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..

High Priest :: High priest () A chief priest; esp., the head of the Jewish priesthood..

Introit :: Introit (n.) A psalm sung or chanted immediately before the collect, epistle, and gospel, and while the priest is entering within the rails of the altar..

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

Priest :: Priest (n.) One who is authorized to consecrate the host and to say Mass; but especially, one of the lowest order possessing this power..

Sanhedrim :: Sanhedrim (n.) the great council of the Jews, which consisted of seventy members, to whom the high priest was added. It had jurisdiction of religious matters..

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..

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

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

Coadjutor :: Coadjutor (n.) The assistant of a bishop or of a priest holding a benefice.

Oblate :: Oblate (a.) One of an association of priests or religious women who have offered themselves to the service of the church. There are three such associations of priests, and one of women, called oblates..

Tonsure :: Tonsure (n.) The shaven corona, or crown, which priests wear as a mark of their order and of their rank..

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

Levitical :: Levitical (a.) Priestly.

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..

Hieroglyphic :: Hieroglyphic (a.) A sacred character; a character in picture writing, as of the ancient Egyptians, Mexicans, etc. Specifically, in the plural, the picture writing of the ancient Egyptian priests. It is made up of three, or, as some say, four classes of characters: first, the hieroglyphic proper, or figurative, in which the representation of the object conveys the idea of the object itself; second, the ideographic, consisting of symbols representing ideas, not sounds, as an ostrich feather is a s

Priesthood :: Priesthood (n.) The office or character of a priest; the priestly function.

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

Shrive :: Shrive (v. i.) To receive confessions, as a priest; to administer confession and absolution..

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