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Unpriest :: Unpriest (v. t.) To deprive of priesthood; to unfrock.

High-priesthood :: High-priesthood (n.) The office, dignity, or position of a high priest..

Tonsure :: Tonsure (n.) The first ceremony used for devoting a person to the service of God and the church; the first degree of the clericate, given by a bishop, abbot, or cardinal priest, consisting in cutting off the hair from a circular space at the back of the head, with prayers and benedictions; hence, entrance or admission into minor orders..

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..

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

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

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

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..

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..

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

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..

Pontifex :: Pontifex (n.) A high priest; a pontiff.

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

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

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

Exeat :: Exeat (n.) A permission which a bishop grants to a priest to go out of his diocese.

Archimagus :: Archimagus (n.) The high priest of the Persian Magi, or worshipers of fire..

Intonation :: Intonation (n.) Reciting in a musical prolonged tone; intonating, or singing of the opening phrase of a plain-chant, psalm, or canticle by a single voice, as of a priest. See Intone, v. t..

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

Divine :: Divine (a.) A minister of the gospel; a priest; a clergyman.

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