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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of priest.

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Examples

  • They tell me he was recently "priested," to use their straight English Church term, and is now parson of a swell city church.

    The Moccasin Maker E. Pauline Johnson 1887

  • "priested" and to say mass in the local church, breaks in word that he cannot be ordained because of illness.

    Irish Plays and Playwrights Cornelius Weygandt 1914

  • For others such as Kat Campion-Spall – a 33-year-old ordinand who will be priested this September and who has argued for the Code of Practice at Synod – the issue is one of the church's credibility.

    Should women ever be bishops? 2010

  • The priests and monks priested it, tight girding their girdles and uplifting the Crucifixes, while the Moslem shouted out the professions of the Requiting King and verses of the Koran began to sing.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • That could be occurring, yes; depending on the superiority of the priested leaders especially.

    CNN Transcript Apr 9, 2008 2008

  • We believe -- and the evidence is very clear -- that in order for the priested men to have three to 70 wives for themselves, they have to do something with the competition, and that would be the young teenage boys.

    CNN Transcript May 8, 2006 2006

  • For the fourthe Sacramente it is holden, that euery prieste rightly priested, acordyng to the keies of the Churche, hauing an entente to consecrate, and obseruynge the fourme of the woordes: hathe power, of wheaten breade to make the very bodie of Christe, and of wine to make his very bloude.

    The Fardle of Facions, conteining the aunciente maners, customes and lawes, of the peoples enhabiting the two partes of the earth, called Affricke and Asie 2004

  • His anger against her found vent in coarse railing at her paramour, whose name and voice and features offended his baffled pride: a priested peasant, with a brother a policeman in

    A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man 2003

  • O tempora, O mores: now they have you priested for it.

    At Swim, Two Boys Jamie O’Neill 2002

  • O tempora, O mores: now they have you priested for it.

    At Swim, Two Boys Jamie O’Neill 2002

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