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The body of ordained religious practitioners
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priesthood
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Priesthood \Priest"hood\, n. The office or character of a priest; the priestly function. --Bk. of Com. Prayer. Priests, taken collectively; the order of men set apart for sacred offices; the order of priests.
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n. the body of ordained religious practitioners
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The ministerial orders of the the Roman Catholic Church are those of bishop , presbyter (more commonly called priest in English ), and deacon . The ordained priesthood and the common priesthood (or priesthood of all the baptized faithful ) are different ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ VERB ordain ▪ I believe women ought to be ordained to the priesthood . ▪ Biscop Baducing was born into a noble family, then was ordained into the priesthood at the age of twenty-five. EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ the Babylonian ...
Usage examples of priesthood.
Then the high priest asserted his authority and expelled Argan from the priesthood.
It was also noted that Sulla had given himself a priesthood to complement the augurship he held already-and that he was the only man to hold both.
Rank dictated the positions of some, like those holding magistracies, priesthoods, augurships, but the bulk of the senators were at liberty to distribute themselves among cronies and settle to partake of viands the bottomless purse of Young Marius had provided.
According to tradition, the new priest would belong to the same family as the dead priest, thus enabling priesthoods and augurships to pass from father to son, or uncle to nephew, or cousin to cousin.
But Calphurnius-first served God a long time in the deaconship, and at length closed his days in the priesthood.
But Calphurnius first served God a long time in the deaconship, and at length closed his days in the priesthood.
He would not be consoled, even when the Senate decreed the baby instant deification, a temple, and a priesthood.
Nearly a hundred have been elevated to the diaconate and priesthood, meeting all requirements and thereby teaching the same level as other men.
In that moment he rises above his stupid gianthood, and earnestly warns the Son of Light that all his power and eminence of priesthood, godhood, and kingship must stand or fall with the unbearable cold greatness of the incorruptible law-giver.
Demand then that Jad-ben-Otho uphold his godship and the dignity of his priesthood by directing his consuming fires through my own bosom.
John was ordained to the priesthood, and when John de Gronde, the first Confessor of the Sisters at Deventer died, he ruled the said Sisterhood which Gerard had founded, being set up as the second Rector thereof, in which office he was a zealous minister, and he governed the Sisters in most excellent wise for many years, for God helped him.
I gave him, but with proper caution, some of the particulars of my life, for I wanted him to be satisfied that, if I had at first entered the career of the holy priesthood, it had not been through any vocation of mine.
I had at that time to attend to the affairs of my posthumous brother, who had, as he said, a call from Heaven to the priesthood, but he wanted a patrimony.
How can we, the priesthood, let the flame die when you who have lived through the sufferings of the Hogen and Heiji wars have not forgotten to love and comfort each other?
Connected with this opinion is the idea that the priesthood is the only mediatorial office between Christ and the congregation.