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n. the craft of performing the duties of a priest

n. priestly policy directed towards worldly ends

n. 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.

n. Priestly policy or system of management based on temporal or material interest; the arts practised by selfish and ambitious priests to gain wealth and power, or to impose on the credulity of others.

n. the skills involved in the work of a priest

n. a derogatory reference to priests who use their influence to control secular or political affairs

"In Florence, too, the hell-on-earth created by priestcraft is coarsely and pungently denounced: young Vespucci capers happily around the pyre on the day that Savonarola is burned and the reign of clerical puritan terror brought to a close."

craft    craftsmanship    workmanship    machination    intrigue   

kingcraft    ceremonialism    rapacity    venality    ritualism