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sacerdocy|ˈsæsədəʊsɪ|
[ad. L. sacerdōtium priestly office, f. sacerdōt-, sacerdōs priest: see sacerdotal a.]
a. The sacerdotal character, spirit, or system.
b. A priestly function or office.
1657–83Evelyn Hist. Relig. (1850) II. 21 And so it continued till the Levitical sacerdocy was fixed and confined to Aaron and his posterity. 1843C. Wordsworth Theoph. Angl. (1850) 167 Let him [sc. the Bishop] make restitution..lest under pretext of sacerdocy the pride of power should creep in. 1844R. M. Beverley Ch. Eng. Exam. (ed. 2) 101 He held true and real Levitical sacerdocy to be a constituent part of the clerical character. 1851Ecclesiologist XII. 274 The sacerdocy of the whole machine being an emanation from the vagaries of a Presbyterian preacher. 1877Mrs. Chapman Ht. Martineau's Autobiog. III. 78 Literature remained ever to her a Sacerdocy. |