Word Meanings - PENITENCER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A priest who heard confession and enjoined penance in extraordinary cases. Chaucer.

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• CONFESSION
  The act of disclosing sins or faults to a priest in order to obtain sacramental absolution. Auricular confession . . . or the private and special confession of sins to a priest for the purpose of obtaining his absolution. Hallam. 4. A formulary
• PRIESTLIKE
  Priestly. B. Jonson.
• PENANCE
  A means of repairing a sin committed, and obtaining pardon for it, consisting partly in the performance of expiatory rites, partly in voluntary submission to a punishment corresponding to the transgression. Penance is the fourth of seven sacraments
• CONFESSIONAL
  Pertaining to a confession of faith. Confessional equality, equality before the law of persons confessing different creeds.
• CONFESSIONALISM
  An exaggerated estimate of the importance of giving full assent to any particular formula of the Christian faith. Shaff.
• PRIESTING
  The office of a priest. Milton.
• CONFESSIONIST
  One professing a certain faith. Bp. Montagu.
• PRIESTESS
  A woman who officiated in sacred rites among pagans. Abp. Potter.
• PRIEST-RIDDEN
  Controlled or oppressed by priests; as, a priest-ridden people. Swift.
• PRIESTISM
  The influence, doctrines, principles, etc., of priests or the priesthood.
• ENJOINMENT
  Direction; command; authoritative admonition. Sir T. Browne.
• CONFESSIONALIST
  A priest hearing, or sitting to hear, confession. Boucher
• CONFESSIONARY
  A confessional. Johnson.
• PRIESTCAP
  A form of redan, so named from its shape; -- called also swallowtail.
• PRIESTLY
  Of or pertaining to a priest or the priesthood; sacerdotal; befitting or becoming a priest; as, the priestly office; a priestly farewell. Shak.
• PRIESTCRAFT
  Priestly policy; the policy of a priesthood; esp., in an ill sense, fraud or imposition in religious concerns; management by priests to gain wealth and power by working upon the religious motives or credulity of others. It is better that men should
• PENANCELESS
  Free from penance.
• ENJOIN
  To prohibit or restrain by a judicial order or decree; to put an injunction on. This is a suit to enjoin the defendants from disturbing the plaintiffs. Kent. Note: Enjoin has the force of pressing admonition with authority; as, a parent enjoins
• PRIESTHOOD
  1. The office or character of a priest; the priestly function. Bk. of Com. Prayer. 2. Priests, taken collectively; the order of men set apart for sacred offices; the order of priests.
• PRIESTLESS
  Without a priest. Pope.
• HIGH-PRIESTHOOD
  The office, dignity, or position of a high priest.
• UNHEARD-OF
  New; unprecedented; unparalleled. Swift.
• UNHEARD
  1. Not heard; not perceived by the ear; as, words unheard by those present. 2. Not granted an audience or a hearing; not allowed to speak; not having made a defense, or stated one's side of a question; disregarded; unheeded; as, to condemunheard.
• HALF-HEARD
  Imperfectly or partly heard to the end. And leave half-heard the melancholy tale. Pope.