单词 | priestdom |
释义 | priestdomn. 1. a. The office of priest; the priesthood. rare. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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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