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Word Meanings - HIGH-PRIESTHOOD - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The office, dignity, or position of a high priest.

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  • PRIESTLIKE
    Priestly. B. Jonson.
  • OFFICEHOLDER
    An officer, particularly one in the civil service; a placeman.
  • PRIESTING
    The office of a priest. Milton.
  • OFFICE WIRE
    Copper wire with a strong but light insulation, used in wiring houses, etc.
  • PRIESTESS
    A woman who officiated in sacred rites among pagans. Abp. Potter.
  • PRIEST-RIDDEN
    Controlled or oppressed by priests; as, a priest-ridden people. Swift.
  • PRIESTISM
    The influence, doctrines, principles, etc., of priests or the priesthood.
  • DIGNITY
    digneté, dignité, F. dignité, fr. L. dignitas, from dignus worthy. 1. The state of being worthy or honorable; elevation of mind or character; true worth; excellence. 2. Elevation; grandeur. The dignity of this act was worth the audience
  • OFFICER
    Specifically, a commissioned officer, in distinction from a warrant officer. Field officer, General officer, etc. See under Field, General. etc. -- Officer of the day , the officer who, on a given day, has charge for that day of the quard,
  • PRIESTCAP
    A form of redan, so named from its shape; -- called also swallowtail.
  • PRIESTLY
    Of or pertaining to a priest or the priesthood; sacerdotal; befitting or becoming a priest; as, the priestly office; a priestly farewell. Shak.
  • PRIESTCRAFT
    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. It is better that men should
  • POSITION
    A method of solving a problem by one or two suppositions; -- called also the rule of trial and error. Angle of position , the angle which any line makes with another fixed line, specifically with a circle of declination. -- Double position ,
  • POSITIONAL
    Of or pertaining to position. Ascribing unto plants positional operations. Sir T. Browne.
  • PRIESTHOOD
    1. The office or character of a priest; the priestly function. Bk. of Com. Prayer. 2. Priests, taken collectively; the order of men set apart for sacred offices; the order of priests.
  • PRIESTLESS
    Without a priest. Pope.
  • OFFICE
    The apartments or outhouses in which the domestics discharge the duties attached to the service of a house, as kitchens, pantries, stables, etc. As for the offices, let them stand at distance. Bacon. (more info) 1. That which a person does, either
  • PRIEST
    A presbyter elder; a minister; specifically: One who is authorized to consecrate the host and to say Mass; but especially, one of the lowest order possessing this power. Murdock.
  • PRIESTERY
    Priests, collectively; the priesthood; -- so called in contempt. Milton.
  • PRIESTLINESS
    The quality or state of being priestly. R. Browning.
  • POST OFFICE
    See POST
  • APPOSITION
    The state of two nouns or pronouns, put in the same case, without a connecting word between them; as, I admire Cicero, the orator. Here, the second noun explains or characterizes the first. Growth by apposition , a mode of growth characteristic
  • BOOKING OFFICE
    1. An office where passengers, baggage, etc., are registered for conveyance, as by railway or steamship. 2. An office where passage tickets are sold.
  • OPPOSITIONIST
    One who belongs to the opposition party. Praed.
  • CROWN OFFICE
    The criminal branch of the Court of King's or Queen's Bench, commonly called the crown side of the court, which takes cognizance of all criminal cases. Burrill.
  • EXPOSITION
    1. The act of exposing or laying open; a setting out or displaying to public view. 2. The act of expounding or of laying open the sense or meaning of an author, or a passage; explanation; interpretation; the sense put upon a passage; a law, or
  • DECOMPOSITION
    1. The act or process of resolving the constituent parts of a compound body or substance into its elementary parts; separation into constituent part; analysis; the decay or dissolution consequent on the removal or alteration of some of
  • SEPOSITION
    The act of setting aside, or of giving up. Jer. Taylor.
  • HIGH-PRIESTHOOD
    The office, dignity, or position of a high priest.
  • CIRCUMPOSITION
    The act of placing in a circle, or round about, or the state of being so placed. Evelyn.
  • ANTEPOSITION
    The placing of a before another, which, by ordinary rules, ought to follow it.
  • PRESUPPOSITION
    1. The act of presupposing; an antecedent implication; presumption. 2. That which is presupposed; a previous supposition or surmise.
  • DEPOSITION
    The act of laying down one's testimony in writing; also, testimony laid or taken down in writting, under oath or affirmation, befor some competent officer, and in reply to interrogatories and cross-interrogatories. Syn. -- Deposition, Affidavit.
  • MISEXPOSITION
    Wrong exposition.
  • INTERPOSITION
    insertion, fr. interponere, interpositum: cf. F. interposition. See 1. The act of interposing, or the state of being interposed; a being, placing, or coming between; mediation. 2. The thing interposed.

 

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