Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The practice of the priesthood; being a priest.

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Examples

  • Since I have been a saggarting, I have been good for nothing at all — neither for work nor Greek — only to play cards!

    Lavengro 2004

  • I have been a saggarting, I have been good for nothing at all -- neither for work nor Greek -- only to play cards!

    Lavengro the Scholar - the Gypsy - the Priest George Henry Borrow 1842

  • I have been a saggarting, I have been good for nothing at all -- neither for work nor Greek -- only to play cards!

    Lavengro The Scholar - The Gypsy - The Priest, Vol. 1 (of 2) George Henry Borrow 1842

  • Leghorn, from which I was sent to -- to a religious house, where I was to be instructed in saggarting till they had made me fit to cut a dacent figure in Ireland.

    The Romany Rye George Henry Borrow 1842

  • I have been a saggarting, I have been good for nothing at all -- neither for work nor Greek -- only to play cards!

    Lavengro; the Scholar, the Gypsy, the Priest George Henry Borrow 1842

  • I have been a saggarting, I have been good for nothing at all -- neither for work nor Greek -- only to play cards!

    Lavengro The Scholar, the Gypsy, the Priest George Henry Borrow 1842

  • Leghorn, from which I was sent to ... to a religious house, where I was to be instructed in saggarting till they had made me fit to cut a decent figure in Ireland.

    The Romany Rye a sequel to "Lavengro" George Henry Borrow 1842

  • Leghorn, from which I was sent to --- to a religious house, where I was to be instructed in saggarting till they had made me fit to cut a decent figure in Ireland.

    The Romany Rye A Sequel to 'Lavengro' George Henry Borrow 1842

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