Word Meanings - PRIESTHOOD - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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.

Related words: (words related to PRIESTHOOD)

• PRIESTLIKE
  Priestly. B. Jonson.
• CHARACTERISTIC
  Pertaining to, or serving to constitute, the character; showing the character, or distinctive qualities or traits, of a person or thing; peculiar; distinctive. Characteristic clearness of temper. Macaulay.
• SACRILEGIOUS
  Violating sacred things; polluted with sacrilege; involving sacrilege; profane; impious. Above the reach of sacrilegious hands. pope. -- Sac`ri*le"gious*ly, adv. -- Sac`ri*le"gious*ness, n.
• CHARACTER
  1. A distinctive mark; a letter, figure, or symbol. It were much to be wished that there were throughout the world but one sort of character for each letter to express it to the eye. Holder. 2. Style of writing or printing; handwriting;
• SACRAL
  Of or pertaining to the sacrum; in the region of the sacrum.
• SACROVERTEBRAL
  Of or pertaining to the sacrum and that part of the vertebral column immediately anterior to it; as, the sacrovertebral angle.
• SACRIFICANT
  One who offers a sacrifice.
• OFFICEHOLDER
  An officer, particularly one in the civil service; a placeman.
• SACRILEGE
  The sin or crime of violating or profaning sacred things; the alienating to laymen, or to common purposes, what has been appropriated or consecrated to religious persons or uses. And the hid treasures in her sacred tomb With sacrilege
• SACRIFICE
  1. The offering of anything to God, or to a god; consecratory rite. Great pomp, and sacrifice, and praises loud, To Dagon. Milton. 2. Anything consecrated and offered to God, or to a divinity; an immolated victin, or an offering of any kind, laid
• SACRIFIC; SACRIFICAL
  Employed in sacrifice. Johnson.
• CHARACTERISM
  A distinction of character; a characteristic. Bp. Hall.
• SACRAMENTALLY
  In a sacrament manner.
• COLLECTIVELY
  In a mass, or body; in a collected state; in the aggregate; unitedly.
• FUNCTION; FUNCTIONATE
  To execute or perform a function; to transact one's regular or appointed business.
• SACRAMENTALIST
  One who holds the doctrine of the real objective presence of Christ;s body and blood in the holy eucharist. Shipley.
• PRIESTING
  The office of a priest. Milton.
• APARTMENT HOUSE
  A building comprising a number of suites designed for separate housekeeping tenements, but having conveniences, such as heat, light, elevator service, etc., furnished in common; -- often distinguished in the United States from a flat house.
• APARTNESS
  The quality of standing apart.
• SACRED
  sacrer, fr. L. sacrare, fr. sacer sacred, holy, cursed. Cf. 1. Set apart by solemn religious ceremony; especially, in a good sense, made holy; set apart to religious use; consecrated; not profane or common; as, a sacred place; a sacred day; sacred
• POST OFFICE
  See POST
• UNSACRAMENT
  To deprive of sacramental character or efficacy; as, to unsacrament the rite of baptism.
• IMBORDER
  To furnish or inclose with a border; to form a border of. Milton.
• TRISACRAMENTARIAN
  One who recognizes three sacraments, and no more; -- namely, baptism, the Lord's Supper, and penance. See Sacrament.
• MISORDER
  To order ill; to manage erroneously; to conduct badly. Shak.
• 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.
• SACRE
  See SAKKER
• 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.