(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.
Shrift
Definition:
(n.) The act of shriving.
(n.) Confession made to a priest, and the absolution consequent upon it.
Example Sentences:
(1) She added that she did not expect Wonga to turn up to the event in person: "They would get short shrift from the 20 organisations that are coming, not to mention many of the people who will be attending."
(2) Cable's views were given short shrift by Downing Street.
(3) This kind of smugness is always given short shrift by the elderly.
(4) In a move that gave short shrift to hedging, the US space agency released a video intended for 22 December 10 days early.
(5) Misguided attempts by well-wishers to literally or metaphorically pat her on the back and praise her "pluckiness" are given short shrift.
(6) If they came to me with ‘let’s talk about another coalition agreement’, I’d give them pretty short shrift because you have to let the British people have their say first,” he said.
(7) Responding directly to Van Rompuy's warning that member states cannot "cherry-pick" policies, Lidington said: "I give a certain amount of short shrift to some of the charges of cherry-picking.
(8) Kondowe, 38, said he and other civil society leaders had visited the president to plead their case, but were given short shrift.
(9) The governing bodies' letter, delivered to the home addresses of the Ofcom chairman, Colette Bowe, and the board after their representatives felt their arguments were given short shrift by the chief executive, Ed Richards, warned of "serious consequences for the sports sector".
(10) Hodgson, whose squad flew out to Brazil from Luton overnight, still claimed to have spotted plenty of positives from a disjointed display, and gave criticism of his side's system short shrift.
(11) Politicians, businessmen, Fifa executives – all get similarly short shrift.
(12) David Wolchover Anthony Heaton-Armstrong London • Although Moazzam Begg was released from prison for lack of evidence, we can rest comfortably because Theresa May’s latest proposals ( Report, 1 October )should see him back behind bars in short shrift.
(13) Everton rejected Chelsea’s opening bid of £20m last week and they gave short shrift to Tuesday’s follow-up.
(14) Chelsea currently top the table, with Wenger having made clear even back on new year's eve that he did was giving short shrift to Mourinho's regular insistence that his team were unlikely title challengers.
(15) Meanwhile investors used that time to pore over the report and it didn't look pretty, not least the tough talk attributed to a senior Standard Chartered executive who gave a New York colleague worried about sanctions busting, memorably short shrift: "You fucking Americans.
(16) Wearing orange jumpsuits and black hoods, two dozen protesters stood outside the White House on Monday to give short shrift to Barack Obama’s claim that the closure of the prison at Guantánamo Bay is beyond his control.
(17) Journalists who stray where they shouldn't will be given short shrift.
(18) Now the Newsnight presenter Jeremy Paxman, famous for giving ruthlessly short shrift to politicians, has confirmed that his irascible on-screen attitude towards Westminster is more than skin deep.
(19) And he has short shrift too for those who are quick to judge much-maligned documentaries such as Channel 4's Benefits Street , arguing that much of the criticism is misplaced.
(20) Livingstone said the row had attracted attention for "all the wrong reasons", but received short shrift from Johnson's camp after attempting to call a truce.