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Priestly

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

adj. Of or relating to a priest or the priesthood.

adj. Characteristic of or suitable for a priest.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

adj. of or relating to priests; order of the priests; high religious position

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

adj. Of or pertaining to a priest or the priesthood; sacerdotal; befitting or becoming a priest

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

Of or pertaining to a priest or priests; sacerdotal: as, the priestly office.

Befitting a priest: as, priestly sobriety and purity of life.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

adj. befitting or characteristic of a priest or the priesthood

adj. associated with the priesthood or priests

Word Usage

"And since at least a third of the buildings he excavated in the southwest corner of the mound appeared to be shrines, Mellaart decided that he must have been digging in what he called a priestly quarter of the settlement."

Antonym

lay

Variant

priestliest priestlier

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

sacerdotal ministerial hieratic pontifical pontific Levitical

Rhyme

Words with the same terminal sound

Priestley

Same Context

Words that are found in similar contexts

ecclesiastical sacerdotal clerical papal kingly monastic monkish episcopal buddhist secular