Word Meanings - PRIESTLESS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Without a priest. Pope.

Related words: (words related to PRIESTLESS)

• PRIESTLIKE
  Priestly. B. Jonson.
• PRIESTING
  The office of a priest. Milton.
• WITHOUT-DOOR
  Outdoor; exterior. "Her without-door form." Shak.
• WITHOUTFORTH
  Without; outside' outwardly. Cf. Withinforth. Chaucer.
• 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.
• PRIESTCAP
  A form of redan, so named from its shape; -- called also swallowtail.
• WITHOUTEN
  Without. Chaucer.
• 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
• 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.
• WITHOUT
  1. On or at the outside of; out of; not within; as, without doors. Without the gate Some drive the cars, and some the coursers rein. Dryden. 2. Out of the limits of; out of reach of; beyond. Eternity, before the world and after, is without our
• PRIEST
  A presbyter elder; a minister; specifically: One who is authorized to consecrate the host and to say Mass; but especially, one of the lowest order possessing this power. Murdock.
• PRIESTERY
  Priests, collectively; the priesthood; -- so called in contempt. Milton.
• PRIESTLINESS
  The quality or state of being priestly. R. Browning.
• HIGH-PRIESTHOOD
  The office, dignity, or position of a high priest.
• UNPRIEST
  To deprive of priesthood; to unfrock. Milton.
• HIGH-PRIESTSHIP
  High-priesthood.
• ARCHPRIEST
  A chief priest; also, a kind of vicar, or a rural dean.
• HIGH PRIEST
  A chief priest; esp., the head of the Jewish priesthood.