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  • noun A high priest

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Examples

  • It is really a pity that of these twelve tribes ten were entirely lost, and had disappeared from the face of the earth so many ages before; but Eleazar, the highpriest, found them again, on purpose to send translators to Ptolemy.

    A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

  • And I heard the voice of that Egyptian highpriest.

    Ulysses 2003

  • During my recent trip to the Manorígao River I was shown kerchiefs of khaki that had been sold by a highpriest of Compostela about two years before.

    The Manóbos of Mindanáo Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume XXIII, First Memoir John M. Garvan

  • The third day, the twenty-fourth of March, was known as the Day of Blood: the Archigallus or highpriest drew blood from his arms and presented it as an offering.

    Chapter 34. The Myth and Ritual of Attis 1922

  • The third day, the twenty-fourth of March, was known as the Day of Blood: the Archigallus or highpriest drew blood from his arms and presented it as an offering.

    The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion 1922

  • ( 'Iesoûs), the son of Josedec and the highpriest who returned with

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent 1840-1916 1913

  • It was he whom Zacharias saw in vision stripped of filthy garments and clothed in clean robes and mitre, while the angel of the Lord proclaimed the highpriest the type of the coming Messias (Zach., iii).

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent 1840-1916 1913

  • It seemed to me that I had been transported into a country far away from this country, into an age remote from this age, that I stood in ancient Egypt and that I was listening to the speech of some highpriest of that land addressed to the youthful Moses.

    Ulysses James Joyce 1911

  • And I heard the voice of that Egyptian highpriest.

    Ulysses James Joyce 1911

  • _ -- And it seemed to me that I heard the voice of that Egyptian highpriest raised in a tone of like haughtiness and like pride.

    Ulysses James Joyce 1911

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