Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Priests collectively; the priesthood: in contempt.
Wiktionary
- n. derogatory, obsolete Priests collectively; the priesthood.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. rare Priests, collectively; the priesthood; -- so called in contempt.
Etymologies
- priest + -ery (Wiktionary)
Examples
“The sectarian college had put him out of joint with priestery.”
“-- a Minister of ninety almost, a sovereign of whom all that can be said is that he is a great canonist, and all that little bubbling and boiling of priestery and monkery, which is at once odious, mischievous, and contemptible, a sort of extinct volcano, all the stink of the sulphur without any of the splendour of the eruption.”
The Greville Memoirs A Journal of the Reigns of King George IV and King William IV, Volume 1 (of 3)
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