(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.
Priestess
Definition:
(n.) A woman who officiated in sacred rites among pagans.
Example Sentences:
(1) As spooky red priestess Melisandre has repeatedly promised: "The night is dark and full of terrors."
(2) Once described by the American critic Stanley Kaufmann as a "reputation in search of a basis", Paltrow was destined from birth to make a film about the high priestess of angst, as they were obviously not going to give the role to Angelina Jolie or Queen Latifah.
(3) In riding a hoverboard, then, you declare that you are for Ayn Rand, high priestess of bonkers libertarianism, and against Charles Baudelaire, poet of the flâneur , hymner of aimless city strolling.
(4) She's not just the 'punk priestess', or the 'rock poet'; she's an incredible torch singer and has put herself on the line.
(5) In one of the final scenes of the third season, a fire priestess whose deity has a proven resurrection capability gets a supernatural glimpse of the big picture and declares, “This war of five kings means nothing.” It’s a lesson sorely needed on the Wall, the 700ft-high sheet of ice that delineates civilization from wilderness.
(6) Sex sells, and what's true for HBO's ratings is true too for Westeros's women who start with nothing: Tyrion's mistress Shae, the mysterious priestess Melisandre, the prostitute Ros who runs Lord Baelish's brothel.
(7) The high-priestess of behaviourist parenting is Channel 4's Supernanny, a makeover programme that has applied the formula of reality TV to parenting and which, according to a 2008 survey, has been watched by 72% of parents.
(8) But it was on Naughtie that Diane Abbott, Labour MP, journalist, television star, formerly the high priestess of New Labour's awkward squad, dropped her bombshell – first mooted in Thursday's Guardian – that she intends to contest the Labour leadership.
(9) It's also home to some fabulously spooky caves, and thus better-known to GoT addicts as the place where dubious Red Priestess, Melisandre of Asshai birthed her murderous shadow baby.