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单词 high priesthood
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high priesthoodn.

Brit. /ˌhʌɪ ˈpriːsthʊd/, U.S. /ˌhaɪ ˈpristˌ(h)ʊd/
Forms: see high priest n. and -hood suffix.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: high priest n., -hood suffix.
Etymology: < high priest n. + -hood suffix, after priesthood n.
1. The position or office of high priest (in any sense); the state or fact of being high priest. Also: the term of office of a high priest.
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prelacya1387
pontificals?a1475
officialshipc1475
bishopric1520
high priesthood1535
superintendence1561
prelateship1570
pontificality1593
officiality1597
prelature1602
prelation1611
prelaty1641
pontificacy1665
pontificate1702
officialty1720
presulate1853
1535 Bible (Coverdale) 1 Macc. vii. 21 Thus Alcimus defended his hie presthode.
1573 T. Cooper Briefe Expos. f. 203v The perpetual annexing of the high priesthood to him and to his house.
1640 W. Prynne Lord Bishops viii. sig. Iij He denyes Christs Highpriesthood in heaven.
1695 H. Dodwell Def. Vindic. Deprived Bishops 47 So far it was from giving him any Power over the High Priesthood itself.
1725 tr. P.-D. Huet Philos. Treat. conc. Weakness Human Understanding i. xiv. 97 His Fellow-Citizens..conferr'd on him [sc. Pyrrho] the High-Priesthood of his Country.
1768 W. Abernethy-Drummond Remarks upon 2nd Pt. Princ. 6 Eli had..got possession of the high-priesthood, on account of some legal or moral disqualification in the eldest branch of the Aaronic family.
1848 Freemasons' Monthly Mag. Mar. 129 The degree of High Priesthood holds very nearly the same relation to the Chapters that the degree of Past Master holds to the Lodges.
1885 Athenæum 21 Mar. 373/3 During the high-priesthood of John Hyrcanus.
1900 Fr. Puller in W. Sanday Different Conceptions Priesthood & Sacrifice iii. 101 Our Lord's elevation to the High Priesthood is by implication described as a glorification of Him by the Father.
1948 M. L. King Ethics Late Judaism in Papers (1992) I. 197 The author was a Chasid who had a great deal of admiration for the high-priesthood of the great Maccabean family.
2010 Austral. Financial Rev. (Nexis) 10 Mar. 46 Citigroup has been elevated to the high priesthood of the formerly fringe faith of environmental, social and governance (ESG) research.
2. The high priests of a particular religion or sphere considered collectively.
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1735 Independent Whig III. 334 The Man who contends for Power and Riches to the Priests, is ever popular with the High Priesthood, ever their Darling.
1828 Foreign Rev. 2 221 According to the constitution of the Ottoman clergy, all the Ulemas, or members of the high priesthood, must be drafted.
1841 R. W. Emerson Ess. 1st Ser. (Boston ed.) xi. 285 That lofty and sequestered class of men..have been..the high priesthood of the pure reason.
1915 G. C. Wilson in Bishop's Convent. (Granite Stake of Zion) 49 Members of these quorums are to be used by the bishop, as are others of the High priesthood.
1991 H. Rheingold Virtual Reality ii. iii. 79 The kind of real-time instrument that hotshot programmers were itching to snatch from the jealous grasp of the high priesthood and put on their own desks.
2013 Western Daily Press (Nexis) 27 Mar. 18 I have lost count of the number of complaints the high priesthood of the organic movement have levelled at me.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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