Priesthood is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for PRIESTHOOD in dictionary:

NOUN:
• the office, dignity, or character of a priest
• the office or position of a priest
• priests in general
• The office or character of a priest; the priestly function.
• Priests, taken collectively; the order of men set apart for sacred offices; the order of priests.
• the body of ordained religious practitioners

Words related to PRIESTHOOD

priesthoods17

Words that contain PRIESTHOOD

priesthoods17 archpriesthood25 archpriesthoods26

How to use PRIESTHOOD in a sentence

• The priesthood resumed its chants, the multitude dropped upon their knees.
• There was no central monarchy, no priesthood, and no written law.
• The other half of the provincial priesthood was his, with, in addition, all the priesthood of the great cities such as Keijo, Fusan, Songdo, Pyen-Yang, Chenampo, and Chemulpo.
• High mass was being celebrated in one of the side Chapels, and a great number of the priesthood were present.
• This was partly fulfilled, when Abiathar, of the race of Heli, was removed from the priesthood, and Sadoc, who was of another line, was substituted in his place.
• No person was to be admitted to the rights of burghership, until he had taken an oath of submission to the Catholic priesthood.
• This priesthood was perhaps the proudest and most conservative community which conservative Egypt ever produced.
• For many generations the king continues to be the chief priest, and the priesthood to be members of the royal race.
• Francis of Assisi, and am drawn to imitate him by refusing the sublime dignity of the Priesthood.
• There we have the same mass, the same priesthood, the same blessed sacrament and the same Faith, as in my own little oratory at Stanfield.
• There is only one other subject, which I think it necessary to introduce here, as bearing upon the vague suspicions which are attached in this country to the Catholic priesthood.
• They were a fine, manly lot, and just as fond of baseball, which they informed us that they often played, as though they were not studying for the priesthood.
• They have been the foes of the priesthood, and have often sought to lessen its power and destroy its influence.
• Therefore the priesthood of Christ does not expiate sins.
• Now, if Christ had also paid tithes in Abraham, His priesthood would not have been according to the order of Melchisedech, but of a lower order.
• Aristobulus and his supporters, with the priesthood, withdrew to the Temple and prepared for an obstinate defence.
• One of the most important duties of the priesthood was that of education, to which certain buildings were appropriated, within the enclosure of the principal temple of each city.
• Fragments of one or two of these have floated down to us from the Aztec priesthood.
• This was an image of the union that existed between the Priesthood and Royalty, in those early times when legislators and kings sought in religion a potent political instrument.
• The long hair, beautiful robes, the singing, praying, and such things, made up a service that reminded me of the days of Solomon and the old priesthood.
• The Philistine army marched northward into the heart of the mountains of Ephraim, the sanctuary of Shiloh was destroyed and its priesthood dispersed.
• The first king was a rebel, who had no glorious past behind him, no established priesthood to support his throne, no capital even, around which all his subjects could rally.
• But the ancient priesthood of Thebes proved too strong for the king.
• Offerings to ten times the usual amount were bestowed on the Babylonian temples, and the favour of the Babylonian priesthood was secured.
• They were the first to assert the lawful authority of the new priesthood.
• A priest of Heliopolis, moreover, would scarcely have given Joseph his daughter in marriage unless at a time when the priesthood was in a state of depression.
• Learning paid back what it received to nobility and to priesthood, and paid it with usury, by enlarging their ideas, and by furnishing their minds.
• Born at Kominato, near the mouth of Yedo Bay, he became a neophite in the Shin-gon sect at the age of twelve, and was admitted into the priesthood when but fifteen years old.

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