Found 2 items, similar to sacerdotal.
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: sacerdotal
sacerdotal
adj 1: of or relating to a belief in sacerdotalism;
“sacerdotal
emphasis on the authority of priests”
2: associated with the priesthood or priests;
“priestly (or
sacerdotal) vestments”;
“hieratic gestures” [syn:
priestly,
hieratic,
hieratical]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Sacerdotal
Sacerdotal
\Sac`er*do"tal\, a. [L. sacerdotalis, fr. sacerdos,
-otis, a priest, fr. sacer holy, sacred: cf. F. sacerdotal.]
Of or pertaining to priests, or to the order of priests;
relating to the priesthood; priesty; as, sacerdotal dignity;
sacerdotal functions.
[1913 Webster]
The ascendency of the sacerdotal order was long the
ascendency which naturally and properly belongs to
intellectual superiority. --Macaulay.
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