(n.) A person who represents a parish in its ecclesiastical and corporate capacities; hence, the rector or incumbent of a parochial church, who has full possession of all the rights thereof, with the cure of souls.
(n.) Any clergyman having ecclesiastical preferment; one who is in orders, or is licensed to preach; a preacher.
Example Sentences:
(1) An untiring advocate of the joys and merits of his adopted home county, Bradbury figured Norfolk as a place of writing parsons, farmer-writers and sensitive poets: John Skelton, Rider Haggard, John Middleton Murry, William Cowper, George MacBeth, George Szirtes.
(2) But British ambassador Sir Anthony Parsons famously got it wrong, reporting that the shah's position was secure as late as 1978.
(3) Nick Parsons, head of strategy at National Australia Bank, said: "Europe's leaders probably thought they had bought themselves three months.
(4) Chandler Parsons scored on a reverse layup with 0.9 seconds left to give Houston the lead but there was just enough time for Lillard to hit a 3 that will go down in Blazers folklore.
(5) The decision to move Parsons and Woodhouse to the Conservative party payroll represents an embarrassment for Cameron, who strongly defended paying them from public funds during his tour of China last week.
(6) But Steve Parsons, the club secretary of Staines Town Football Club, who campaigned against the change, said: "The council have decided they don't want to be linked with the Ali G show.
(7) In its original format the show was was presented by Mark Lawson from 1994 until 2005, when Kearney and Wark took over, and in the early years often featured a regular panel of Tom Paulin, Allison Pearson and Tony Parsons.
(8) The five projects selected are those that the government's engineering consultants, Parsons Brinckerhoff, deemed to be based on the most proven technology.
(9) In a statement released on Thursday night, Parsons’ employers, Business and Commercial Finance Club said they were suspending Josh from work with immediate effect pending investigation into his alleged role in the Métro incident.
(10) "I have a sense that he smoked because he was addicted, as I was," Parsons said.
(11) The salaries of Parsons and Woodhouse, between £36,000 and £44,000 each, will now be paid for by the Conservative party.
(12) The European Union and the International Monetary Fund had handed enormous power to the Greeks, Parsons argued, just as Theseus handed power to Hippolyta by agreeing to lay down his sword.
(13) Nick Parsons, head of strategy at NAB Capital, said that any bail-out of LDV by the government was unlikely to lead to a single extra van being sold.
(14) Earlier this month, the Guardian revealed allegations that the government's engineering consultants , Parsons Brinckerhoff, had miscalculated the costs of a tidal lagoon project of the kind championed by FOE.
(15) Two leading sociological theorists of mental illness, Parsons and Scheff, depict the mentally ill as enacting a deviant social role which sets them apart from others.
(16) The perfused in situ rat jejunum preparation originally described by Hanson and Parsons (1976) was adapted for use in absorption and metabolism studies with drugs.
(17) According to a Cabinet Office source, at least one senior minister questioned the appropriateness of hiring Parsons as a civil servant but the appointment was pushed through with the support of Cameron and his director of communications, Andy Coulson.
(18) All of Fort McMurray, with the exception of Parson’s Creek, was under a mandatory evacuation order on Tuesday, said Robin Smith, press secretary for the regional municipality of Wood Buffalo in the Canadian province.
(19) Marshall did not give details on redundancies and Parsons Brinckerhoff is the only Balfour Beatty business up for sale.
(20) A No 10 source said: "The PM has decided that Andrew Parsons and Nicky Woodhouse will no longer be paid for by the taxpayer.
Priest
Definition:
(n.) A presbyter elder; a minister
(n.) One who is authorized to consecrate the host and to say Mass; but especially, one of the lowest order possessing this power.
(n.) A presbyter; one who belongs to the intermediate order between bishop and deacon. He is authorized to perform all ministerial services except those of ordination and confirmation.
(n.) One who officiates at the altar, or performs the rites of sacrifice; one who acts as a mediator between men and the divinity or the gods in any form of religion; as, Buddhist priests.
(v. t.) To ordain as priest.
Example Sentences:
(1) That is the problem with those who refuse to accept women’s ministry as priests and bishops.
(2) Other high-profile speakers include writer and priest Giles Fraser, and the writer Tariq Ali.
(3) Rev Andrew Foreshew-Cain, vicar of St James church in West Hampstead, London, who last month became the second Church of England priest to marry his same sex partner , said on Twitter that the treatment of Pemberton was "further evidence of the profound homophobia at the heart of the church" .
(4) Both Keilloh and Madden face further hearings: the doctor will be examined by a General Medical Council disciplinary tribunal over his role in Iraq and the priest is to be interviewed by the archbishop of Birmingham, Bernard Longley.
(5) Junípero Serra's road to sainthood is controversial for Native Americans Read more When the King of Spain sent Jesuit priests to prevent Russian fur hunters from claiming the region, he directed them to educate and baptize native peoples so they could become Spanish citizens, but Serra had other plans.
(6) The protester was later identified as the Rev Paul Williamson, who once tried to charge an earlier archbishop of Canterbury with high treason for ordaining female priests.
(7) London's future-soul act Jungle are new at No 7, with another big chart entry for the classic metal act Judas Priest.
(8) When Philip Roth accepted the biennial International Booker prize honouring some 60 years of his fiction, from Goodbye, Columbus to Nemesis , he sat at a wooden table in the studio adjoining his airy Connecticut retreat looking as much like a retired priest, or judge, as the Grand Old Man of American letters, pushing 79.
(9) "The relationship between a bishop and a priest of a Roman Catholic diocese has many of the hallmarks of an employment relationship, and therefore it is right and proper that the church should be held legally accountable for abuse by its priests.
(10) He was happy to dismiss the declarations of his predecessor, Pope Benedict, regarding gay priests, but an apostolic letter written nearly 20 years ago by John Paul II outlining his personal objections to the ordination of women is held to be a "definitive formulation" that is not open to further discussion.
(11) Imhotep’s abilities appear to have been extraordinary: other records show he was a doctor and high priest, as well as the king’s chief carpenter, head sculptor, and second-in-command.
(12) We have a catastrophe now in Utah with opiate overdoses,” said Dan Snarr, a member of the high priest group leadership within the LDS church whose son, Denver, died of a prescription drug overdose at the age of 25 after becoming hooked on painkillers following a rugby injury.
(13) He's now regretting this: "I want to look like a priest, not a protester."
(14) In the town of Boali, 60 miles to the north, the Catholic priest Xavier-Arnauld Fagba went from house to house and into the bush to offer Muslims sanctuary in his church .
(15) The church had already been under fire over the sexual misbehaviour of several priests in various Irish parishes.
(16) Since it started I have had claims from four other people that this priest abused them.
(17) Some of the women priests appeared to have sourced phone cases to match the colour of their clerical robes.
(18) Two men were charged in connection with Grafton Close, including Catholic priest Father Anthony McSweeney, who was found guilty and jailed for three years .
(19) The dissident Gleb Yakunin excavated evidence from the KGB archives in the 1990s that fingered high-ranking priests as KGB agents, including the former head of the church, Aleksei II, and the current, Patriarch Kirill I.
(20) Pemberton, a former parish priest and a divorced father-of-five, was one of dozens of clergy in December 2012 who signed a letter to the Daily Telegraph warning that if the church refused to permit gay weddings in its own churches they would advise members of their congregations to marry elsewhere.