sacerdotal

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One is the sacerdotal, and the other is what, for want of a better name, I may term the evangelical.

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  1. adjective Of or relating to priests or the priesthood; priestly.
  2. adjective Of or relating to sacerdotalism.

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  • - 258 - There is in them also something which recalls, not only by citations, but still more by the very inspiration of the thought, that which we call the sacerdotal prayer of Christ. —  The Project Gutenberg eBook of Life Of St. Francis of Assisi, by Paul Sabatier.
  • In Bennison's "theology" he makes it sound like the sacerdotal class is there to sooth, accommodate and mediate competing factions here on earth, in other words to build an "inclusive" church that these days seems to encompass just about everything except orthodox Christianity. —  Midwest Conservative Journal
  • The first was the natural reaction from the overweening reverence anciently felt for the sacerdotal order: when the sacerdos was found to be but a presbyter, his charm was gone. —  Clare Avery A Story of the Spanish Armada
  • The astrologers liked to assume the appearance of incorruptible and holy priests and to consider their calling a sacerdotal one. —  The Oriental Religions in Roman Paganism
  • The sacerdotal, the ecclesiastical, were qualities which he had assumed with full consciousness of their sanctity, yet they united with his other characteristics in a way to leave traces of the point of contact. —  Life of Father Hecker
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  1. Middle English, from Old French, from Latin sacerdōtālis, from sacerdōs, sacerdōt-, priest; see sak- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Old French (and F.) sacerdotal = Provencal Spanish Portuguese sacerdotal = Italian sacerdotale, from Latin sacerdotalis, of or pertaining to a priest, from sacerdos (sacerdot-) (later Anglo-Saxon sacerd), a priest, literally ‘presenter of offerings or sacred gifts,’ from sacer, sacred, + dare, give (later dos (dot-), a dowry: see dot, dower): see sacre and date.
 

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/sæsərˈdoʊtəl/
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