(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.
Pundit
Definition:
(n.) A learned man; a teacher; esp., a Brahman versed in the Sanskrit language, and in the science, laws, and religion of the Hindoos; in Cashmere, any clerk or native official.
Example Sentences:
(1) What did surprise pundits was Hollywood's recognition of this unflinching Austrian film about ageing as a candidate for best picture, among such expected contenders as Steven Spielberg's Lincoln , Ben Affleck's Argo and Tom Hooper's Les Misérables .
(2) Those with no idea of what he looks like might struggle to identify this modest figure as one of the world's most exalted film-makers, or the red devil loathed by rightwing pundits from Michael Gove down.
(3) The cavernous studio will play host to a half-sized football pitch, where pundits will demonstrate what players did or didn't do correctly and there are other technological innovations planned that marry broadband interactivity with live coverage.
(4) It is the sort of malevolent onslaught that has caused many hardened media pundits to quake.
(5) But that’s just false , no matter how many uninformed newly-minted rape pundits claim otherwise.
(6) If Jones does not recover in time, the pundit Gary Lineker has backed Everton's 19-year-old defender John Stones as a potential replacement for England.
(7) Nobody is sure what dangerous chemical imbalance this would create but the Fiver is convinced we'd all be dust come October or November, the earth scorched, with only three survivors roaming o'er the barren landscape: Govan's answer to King Lear, ranting into a hole in the ground; a mute, wild-eyed pundit, staring without blinking into a hole in the ground; and a tall, irritable figure standing in front of the pair of them, screaming in the style popularised by Klaus Kinski, demanding they take a look at his goddamn trouser arrangement, which he has balanced here on the platform of his hand for easy perusal, or to hell with them, for they are no better than pigs, worthless, spineless pigs.
(8) The England coach and Sky Sports pundit Neville believes the £42m summer signing should have been given a rest over Christmas, just as Cristiano Ronaldo was at Manchester United.
(9) Pundits now talk of " the subprime student loan " because often what is being bought through borrowing is not worth the initial fee, let alone the interest on that fee.
(10) Before kick off, incidentally, Independent Television Service pundit Roy Keane was asked whether this might be his kind of match.
(11) Their Portuguese manager, Carlos Quiroz spoke of the team’s readiness to do business – despite pundits writing the team off as the competition’s underdogs.
(12) Bigotry against us is acceptable (and sometimes even politically necessary) for elected officials , candidates for public office , pundits and others to advance their careers – or their television ratings .
(13) Despite buying the company just before the crash, Neil (and many pundits) believes he got a good deal, arguing that economic downturns can be good for entertainment-based businesses.
(14) She booked a well-paying gig as a Fox News pundit, wrote two bestselling books and starred in her own reality show, Sarah Palin’s Alaska, on TLC.
(15) The dour Zenawi could not resist a swipe at western pundits who had once written off Africa.
(16) The other caste – CEOs, industrialists, wealthy professionals, and pundits who abhorred Grillo until the end of last week, are now praising him.
(17) For three decades politicians and pundits have decreed that electoral success can only be achieved on the basis of an establishment corporate orthodoxy they decreed to be "the centre".
(18) Don’t run a project fear campaign, pundits warn, but why not when there is so much to fear in what Brexit Britain would become?
(19) The attack in Peshawar is yet another nail in Pakistan’s coffin, cynical residents and pundits alike will tell you today.
(20) Wise pundits still predict that Trump will drop away as the vote approaches.