Hypertext Webster Gateway: "sacerdotal"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
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.
The ascendency of the sacerdotal order was long the
ascendency which naturally and properly belongs to
intellectual superiority. --Macaulay.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
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}]
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