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单词 priestdom
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priestdomn.

Brit. /ˈpriːstdəm/, U.S. /ˈpristdəm/
Forms: 1500s prestdome, 1500s–1600s priestdome, 1700s– priestdom.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: priest n., -dom suffix.
Etymology: < priest n. + -dom suffix. In sense 2 after German Pfaffentum office of a priest, state ruled by priests (1561).
1.
a. The office of priest; the priesthood. rare.
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society > faith > church government > member of the clergy > priest > [noun] > office of a priest
priesthoodOE
sanctuaryc1380
priestheada1400
priestdom1528
priestship1584
flamenship1600
sacerdotala1640
sacerdocya1706
long robe1762
sacerdoce1829
priestism1842
sacerdotalism1847
sacerdotium1931
1528 W. Tyndale Obed. Christen Man f. cxxxvv He was cursed and loost the kyngdome and also the prestdome.
1857 W. Chase Life-line of Lone One 130 Ten thousand temple-domes in grandeur rise Where priestdom learned expounds the ‘word of life’.
1994 Times (Nexis) 12 Mar. (Features section) Some have described their personal journey to priestdom as being like the process of pregnancy and birth or bearing fruit.
b. With possessive adjective: a mock title of respect for a priest. Cf. priestship n. Obsolete.
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society > faith > church government > member of the clergy > priest > [noun]
priesteOE
presbyterOE
sirec1290
beauperec1300
sirc1386
fatherhooda1393
fatherheada1434
paternity1439
pater1481
fathershipa1500
father1528
key-bearer?1531
key-keeper?1556
vicegerent1572
priestdom1588
sacerdosa1592
flasher1611
priesthooda1616
père1619
sacerdote1685
firekeeper1789
soggarth1836
priestship1868
soutane1890
joss-man1913
1588 ‘M. Marprelate’ Oh read ouer D. Iohn Bridges: Epist. 28 I woulde praye your priestdomes to tell me which is the better scholler.
1615 E. Hoby Curry-combe iii. 130 Your answer puts the nose of your Priestdome clean out of ioynt.
2. The rule or dominion of priests; clerical power. Also: a state ruled by priests.
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society > faith > church government > kinds of church government > hierarchy > [noun]
hierarchy1563
hierocracy1794
priestdom1799
theocracy1825
hierarchism1846
society > faith > church government > member of the clergy > priest > [noun] > dominion of priests
priestdom1799
1799 tr. I. Kant Ess. & Treat. II. ii. iv. 403 Priestdom (hierodulia) (if the translator may be allowed to coin this word, as priestcraft, which comes the nearest of any vocable in English to Pfaffenthum in German, is not comprehensive enough in this sense,) is, in general, the usurped dominion of the clergy over the minds.
1871 H. B. Forman Our Living Poets 372 The people crucified by king-craft and priest-dom.
1895 S. R. Crockett Bog-myrtle & Peat i. i. 20 It is a mistaken belief that priestdom died when they spelled it Presbytery.
1899 Jrnl. Anthropol. Inst. 29 324 Gradually these principalities were first mediatized and then absorbed by the great Eastern Empires, Assyrian, Mede, and Persian, and upon their sites a series of priestdoms arose.
1937 W. B. Shaw University between Two Centuries 202 In the East..the state meddled in an absurd manner with the religious statutes of the priests and with priestdom, instead of holding them within the narrow confines of a teacher's status.
2003 Daily Tel. 8 Sept. 18/6 The Kurds want Kurdistan, and most Shi'ites want a Shi'a priestdom with strong relations with Iran.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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