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priestlike, a. (adv.)|ˈpriːstlaɪk|
[f. as prec. + -like.]
Like, or like that of, a priest; resembling, pertaining or proper to, characteristic of, or befitting a priest; priestly, sacerdotal.
c1470Henry Wallace iv. 702 Than Wallace..Arayit him weill in till a preistlik goun. 1559J. Aylmer Harborowe O iv b, Let your portion be priestlike and not princelike. 1600W. Watson Decacordon (1602) 345 A very learned, religious, and priestlike apology. 1607Shakes. Cor. v. i. 56 We haue suppler Soules Then in our Priest-like Fasts. a1821Keats Last Sonn., The moving waters at their priestlike task Of pure ablution round earth's human shores. 1831Carlyle Misc. (1857) II. 189 There is something priest-like in that Life of his.
B. adv. Like a priest; in the character or manner of a priest.
1565T. Stapleton Fortr. Faith 152 Hazard their liuinges rather then go priestlike. 1611Shakes. Wint. T. i. ii. 237, I haue trusted thee..With all the neerest things to my heart, as well My Chamber-Councels, wherein (Priest-like) thou Hast cleans'd my Bosome. |