Thanks for using this online dictionary, we have been helping millions of people improve their use of the english language with its free online services. English definition of priest is as below...

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..

Responsory :: Responsory (n.) The answer of the people to the priest in alternate speaking, in church service..

Abnet :: Abnet (n.) The girdle of a Jewish priest or officer.

Breastplate :: Breastplate (n.) A part of the vestment of the high priest, worn upon the front of the ephod. It was a double piece of richly embroidered stuff, a span square, set with twelve precious stones, on which were engraved the names of the twelve tribes of Israel. See Ephod..

Introit :: Introit (n.) A part of a psalm or other portion of Scripture read by the priest at Mass immediately after ascending to the altar.

Ponghee :: Ponghee (n.) A Buddhist priest of the higher orders in Burmah.

Priesthood :: Priesthood (n.) Priests, taken collectively; the order of men set apart for sacred offices; the order of priests..

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

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..

Pythonism :: Pythonism (n.) The art of predicting events after the manner of the priestess of Apollo at Delphi; equivocal prophesying.

Imaum :: Imaum (n.) Among the Mohammedans, a minister or priest who performs the regular service of the mosque..

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

Levite :: Levite (n.) A priest; -- so called in contempt or ridicule.

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

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

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

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

Theocracy :: Theocracy (n.) Government of a state by the immediate direction or administration of God; hence, the exercise of political authority by priests as representing the Deity..

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.

Random Fonts

Most Popular