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high priest, ˈhigh-priest
[See high a. 7.]
1. A chief priest; esp. the Jewish chief priest.
1382Wyclif Sel. Wks. III. 517 Þe heyȝe prest Hely. 1526Tindale John xviii. 10 [He] smote the hye prestes servaunt. 1582N. Lichefield tr. Castanheda's Conq. E. Ind. xvii. 43 b, The kings high Priest. 1756–7tr. Keysler's Trav. (1760) II. 399 The emperor Augustus Cæsar, high-priest, &c. having conquered Egypt, and united it to the Roman state, consecrated this obelisk to the sun. 1877P. Thompson in Queen's Printers' Aids to Bible 148 To found and establish the Asmonæan dynasty of native high-priest-princes.
b. Applied to Christ as maker of the Atonement.
1526Tindale Heb. iv. 14 [v. 1] Seynge then thatt we have a grette hye prest whych hath entred heven..lett vs kepe oure profession. 1718Watts Hymn, With joy we meditate the grace Of our High Priest above. 1833Cruse Eusebius x. iv. 412 Our first and great High Priest.
2. transf. and fig. A hierophant; the head of any ‘cult’.
1767Junius Lett. ii. (1804) I. 17 Just indignation against this Junius, this high-priest of envy, malice, and all uncharitableness. 1831Brewster Newton (1855) II. xvi. 118 The high priest of science found himself the inmate of a college. 1878N. Amer. Rev. CXXVII. 106 Ricardo, the high-priest of the bullionists. |