Word Meanings - PRIESTLY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Of or pertaining to a priest or the priesthood; sacerdotal; befitting or becoming a priest; as, the priestly office; a priestly farewell. Shak.

CLERICALISM
An excessive devotion to the interests of the sacerdotal order; undue influence of the clergy; sacerdotalism.
SACERDOTAL
Of or pertaining to priests, or to the order of priests; relating to the priesthood; priesty; as, sacerdotal dignity; sacerdotal functions. The ascendency of the sacerdotal order was long the ascendency which naturally and properly belongs
SACERDOTALISM
The system, style, spirit, or character, of a priesthood, or sacerdotal order; devotion to the interests of the sacerdotal order.
CLERICAL
1. Of or pertaining to the clergy; suitable for the clergy. "A clerical education." Burke. 2. Of or relating to a clerk or copyist, or to writing. "Clerical work." E. Everett. A clerical error, an error made in copying or writing.
PRIESTLY
Of or pertaining to a priest or the priesthood; sacerdotal; befitting or becoming a priest; as, the priestly office; a priestly farewell. Shak.
SACERDOTALLY
In a sacerdotal manner.
HIERARCHICAL
Pertaining to a hierarchy. -- Hi`er*arch`ic*al*ly, adv.
ANTISACERDOTAL
Hostile to priests or the priesthood. Waterland.