The Collaborative International Dictionary
Priestlike \Priest"like`\, a.
Priestly.
--B. Jonson.
Wiktionary
a. Resembling or characteristic of a priest.
WordNet
adj. befitting or characteristic of a priest or the priesthood; "priestly dedication to the people of his parish" [syn: priestly] [ant: unpriestly]
Usage examples of "priestlike".
Pascal, always absorbed, dedicated to his work, had a priestlike quality.
Cluck my tongue, priestlike, and tell him, Yes, my child, you have sinned grievously?
A little flame sprang up revealing a pile of logs arranged for burning, and beyond it the tall form of Dacha wearing a strange headdress and white, priestlike robes, different from those in which he had been clad at the feast.
Schemer was starirg into her eyes with almost priestlike intensity when the unmistakable crack of rifle fire echoed down the stairwell.
He had a soft unctuous voice so that Albinus pictured him as an old man with a clean-shaven priestlike face, although in reality, he was still fairly young and sported a bristly moustache.
He had flung up his white-sleeved arms in priestlike oblation above his head.