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† ˈpriestery Obs. nonce-wd.
[f. priest n. + -ery.]
Priests collectively; a body or company of priests. (contemptuous.)
1649Milton Eikon. i, The King among all his priestery, and all those numberless volumes of their theological distillations, not meeting with one man or book of that coat that could befriend him with a prayer in captivity. |