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Priest
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priest, in Christianity: see orders, holy orders, holy [Lat. ordo,=rank], in Christianity, the traditional degrees of the clergy, conferred by the Sacrament of Holy Order. The episcopacy, priesthood or presbyterate, and diaconate were in general use in Christian churches in the 2d cent.
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priest (feminine), priestess
1. Christianity a person ordained to act as a mediator between God and man in administering the sacraments, preaching, blessing, guiding, etc.
2. (in episcopal Churches) a minister in the second grade of the hierarchy of holy orders, ranking below a bishop but above a deacon
3. a minister of any religion
4. Judaism a descendant of the family of Aaron who has certain privileges in the synagogue service
5. (in some non-Christian religions) an official who offers sacrifice on behalf of the people and performs other religious ceremonies
6. a variety of fancy pigeon having a bald pate with a crest or peak at the back of the head
7. Angling a small club used to kill fish caught
priest [prēst]
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Priest 

(in Russian, sviashchennik; official church designation, ierei; popular name, pop), a clergyman of the Orthodox Church having the right to perform church ceremonies, including the liturgy, and to administer the sacraments. The right to ordain priests and to assign them to a post in a parish is given to an eparchial bishop (arkhierei). A senior priest is an archpriest (protoierei), and a monastic priest is a hieromonk (ieromonakh). The clergymen of other churches, including some Protestant churches, are also sometimes referred to as priests in literature.
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To one side are those who hold Bach in high esteem, elevating him to a kind of patron saint for church musicians, attributing to him a near priestlike gift for dispensing sacred music at its best, romanticizing his life by dwelling on the anecdotes that showed genius in the face of great odds (such as copying music by moonlight) and by exaggerating his European superiority.
Bach and his secular cantatas: a case study by Bangert, Mark P. / Currents in Theology and Mission
In the arbors were placed the musicians, who represented the shades of the old poets, and were attired in a priestlike habit of crimson and purple, with laurel garlands.
Labyrinth dances in the French and English Renaissance by Greene, Thomas M. / Renaissance Quarterly
Also priestlike was Guinness's deflection of attention from himself.
AS CLEAR AS GLASS : Sir Alec Guinness by Burris, Keith / Commonweal
 
 
 
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