What is "highpriest"

Usage examples of "highpriest".

It seemed to me that I had been transported into a country far away from this country, into an age remote from this age, that I stood in ancient Egypt and that I was listening to the speech of some highpriest of that land addressed to the youthful Moses.

I heard the voice of that Egyptian highpriest raised in a tone of like haughtiness and like pride.

My father, now in Osiris, a worthier highpriest than I, was charged by the Prophets to entreat his father to give up the guilty project of connecting the north sea by a navigable channel with the unclean waters of the Red Sea.

In actuality, Styphon's Voice is typically a figurehead chosen to represent the interests of the Inner Circle of Archpriests, a closely connected group of thirty-six Archpriests which includes the highpriest of each Great Kingdom High Temples of Styphon.

The names of highpriests, upperpriests and archpriests swirled past Kalvan until he felt as if he were reading a long Russian novel without a cast of characters to help him keep track of who was doing what to whom.

And if it were clearly made out what is remarkably delivered from the Traditions of the Rabbins, that as the Oyle was powered coronally or circularlly upon the head of Kings, so the HighPriest was anointed decussatively or in the form of an X.

The 'secret' of Styphon's Great Image is so well guarded that only the head of the Temple and the highpriests who rule the Great Temple and all its worldly possessions know that it's a fraud.

Others have trouble obtaining reliable information since the highpriests are leery of outsiders, even those of high birth and wealth.

Balph is a city of priests and so far we've only been able to bribe several highpriests, but none of any real stature and, of course, no one within the Inner Circle.