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Pontificate :: Pontificate (n.) The state or dignity of a high priest; specifically, the office of the pope..

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

Bacchante :: Bacchante (n.) A priestess of Bacchus.

Powpow :: Powpow (n.) A priest, or conjurer, among the North American Indians..

Priestcraft :: Priestcraft (n.) Priestly policy; the policy of a priesthood; esp., in an ill sense, fraud or imposition in religious concerns; management by priests to gain wealth and power by working upon the religious motives or credulity of others..

Showbread :: Showbread (n.) Bread of exhibition; loaves to set before God; -- the term used in translating the various phrases used in the Hebrew and Greek to designate the loaves of bread which the priest of the week placed before the Lord on the golden table in the sanctuary. They were made of fine flour unleavened, and were changed every Sabbath. The loaves, twelve in number, represented the twelve tribes of Israel. They were to be eaten by the priests only, and in the Holy Place..

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

Altarage :: Altarage (n.) The profit which accrues to the priest, by reason of the altar, from the small tithes..

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

Leviticus :: Leviticus (n.) The third canonical book of the Old Testament, containing the laws and regulations relating to the priests and Levites among the Hebrews, or the body of the ceremonial law..

Dignitary :: Dignitary (n.) One who possesses exalted rank or holds a position of dignity or honor; especially, one who holds an ecclesiastical rank above that of a parochial priest or clergyman..

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

Hierarchy :: Hierarchy (n.) A form of government administered in the church by patriarchs, metropolitans, archbishops, bishops, and, in an inferior degree, by priests..

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

Laocoon :: Laocoon (n.) A priest of Apollo, during the Trojan war. (See 2.).

Confess :: Confess (v. t.) To make known or acknowledge, as one's sins to a priest, in order to receive absolution; -- sometimes followed by the reflexive pronoun..

Hiermartyr :: Hiermartyr (n.) A priest who becomes a martyr.

Hierophant :: Hierophant (n.) The presiding priest who initiated candidates at the Eleusinian mysteries; hence, one who teaches the mysteries and duties of religion..

Gospeler :: Gospeler (n.) A priest or deacon who reads the gospel at the altar during the communion service.

Archpriest :: Archpriest (n.) A chief priest; also, a kind of vicar, or a rural dean..

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