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Annueler :: Annueler (n.) A priest employed in saying annuals, or anniversary Masses..

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

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..

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..

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

Hieratic :: Hieratic (a.) Consecrated to sacred uses; sacerdotal; pertaining to priests.

Lamaism :: Lamaism (n.) A modified form of Buddhism which prevails in Thibet, Mongolia, and some adjacent parts of Asia; -- so called from the name of its priests. See 2d Lama..

Auricular :: Auricular (a.) Told in the ear, i. e., told privately; as, auricular confession to the priest..

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..

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

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..

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

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..

Shamanism :: Shamanism (n.) The type of religion which once prevalied among all the Ural-Altaic peoples (Tungusic, Mongol, and Turkish), and which still survives in various parts of Northern Asia. The Shaman, or wizard priest, deals with good as well as with evil spirits, especially the good spirits of ancestors..

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

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..

Ephod :: Ephod (n.) A part of the sacerdotal habit among Jews, being a covering for the back and breast, held together on the shoulders by two clasps or brooches of onyx stones set in gold, and fastened by a girdle of the same stuff as the ephod. The ephod for the priests was of plain linen; that for the high priest was richly embroidered in colors. The breastplate of the high priest was worn upon the ephod in front..

Presbytery :: Presbytery (n.) That part of the church reserved for the officiating priest.

Pythian :: Pythian (a.) Of or pertaining to Delphi, to the temple of Apollo, or to the priestess of Apollo, who delivered oracles at Delphi..

Infula :: Infula (n.) A sort of fillet worn by dignitaries, priests, and others among the ancient Romans. It was generally white..

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