priesthoodn.

Brit.

/ˈpriːsthʊd/, U.S.

/ˈpristˌ(h)ʊd/

Forms: see priest n. and -hood suffix; also Middle English presthold, Middle English prestod, 1500s prestwoode.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: priest n., -hood suffix.

Etymology: < priest n. + -hood suffix.Compare Middle English pristis hade the office of a priest (one isolated attestation: see quot. a1400 at priesthead n.; < the genitive of priest n. + had n.). Compare also Old English mæsseprēosthād the office or function of a mass-priest ( < mass-priest n. + -hood suffix).

a. The office or function of a priest; the condition or status of being a priest; the order of priest.

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

OE Aldhelm Glosses (Brussels 1650) in L. Goossens Old Eng. Glosses of MS Brussels, Royal Libr. 1650 (1974) 382 Clericatus : preosthades.

OE tr. Bede Eccl. Hist. (Cambr. Univ. Libr.) i. vii. 34 Ða gelamp þæt he sumne Godes mann preosthades [L. clericum quendam]..on gestliðnysse onfeng.

a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) (1961) Lev. xxi. 10 Þe bischoop þat is þe most prest among his briþeren..whoos hoondys in presthood [L. sacerdotio] been sacred..his heed he shal not discoueren.

a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1872) IV. 105 Symon..bouȝte þe preosthood of Appolinus, duke of Phenicia.

?c1430 (c1400) J. Wyclif Eng. Wks. (1880) 58 Who euere comeþ to prestod.

c1475 (?c1400) Apol. Lollard Doctr. (1842) 32 (MED) And tak þei ȝed how Gregor seiþ to presthod; he seiþ not to cure.

a1500 (?c1425) Speculum Sacerdotale (1936) 164 (MED) He come in-to the office of prestehode by sorte and ȝede in-to þe temple to offre sacrifice.

1549 Forme & Maner consecratyng Archebishoppes sig. G.i Reuerende father in God, I present vnto you these persones present, to be admitted to the Order of Priesthod.

1662 E. Stillingfleet Origines Sacræ ii. vii. §12 When an order of Priesthood different from the Aaronicall should be set up.

1681 J. Dryden Absalom & Achitophel (1760) 1 Since men like beasts each other's prey were made, Since trade began, and priesthood grew a trade.

1729 W. Law Serious Call x. 142 He therefore..is like him that abuses the priesthood.

1782 J. Barnard Sermon 79 The eminent degree of Sanctity and Perfection which every one ought to be possessed of, who expects to be admitted to the Priesthood.

1810 A. L. Barbauld Brit. Novelists I. 23 All that is recorded of Sethos is, merely that there was such a prince, and that, for some reason or other, he entered into the priesthood.

1865 R. W. Dale Jewish Temple xiii. 139 It was these circumstances that made the priesthood of Melchizedek unique.

1952 R. A. Knox Hidden Stream xx. 190 The institution of the priesthood rounds off the sacramental system by making it clear to us that it is a family system; the priest is the father of the family and the head of the family.

1984 Christadelphian Sept. 323/2 Now that they were in actual danger of exclusion from the priesthood, the sacrifices and the feasts, they were filled with anguish.

b. The priestly office of Christ, of the Church, or of all Christian believers.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the supernatural > deity > Christian God > the Trinity > the Son or Christ > [noun] > priestly office of

priesthoodc1384

society > faith > aspects of faith > [noun] > person(s) having > office of

priesthood1897

society > faith > sect > Christianity > person > [noun] > collective > part of > office of

priesthood1897

c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) Heb. vii. 24 Forsoth this man [sc. Christ], for that he dwelle into withouten ende, hath euerelastyng presthod.

a1456 J. Lydgate Minor Poems (1911) i. 37 (MED) Þis chosen Aaron bering a liknesse..Of trewe preesthode [v.r. priesthod] and goostly parfytnesse, Þis Innocent, þis lambe with large wounde.

a1500 (c1410) Dives & Pauper (Hunterian) (1976) i. 98 (MED) Seynt Luke spak mest of his presthod and began his gospel at presthod.

1686 J. Scott Christian Life: Pt. II II. vii. 687 To explain the Priesthood, and Priestly Acts of our Saviour.

1728 J. Dodson Twelve Disc. 23 The Apostle to the Hebrews making a Comparison between the Priesthood of Christ, and the Levitical Priesthood [etc.].

1794 A. Callander Thoughts on Peaceable & Spiritual Nature Christ’s Kingdom I. 108 The eternal priesthood of Christ, by the which we draw nigh unto God.

1851 E. B. Pusey Let. to Bp. London 25 In His abiding Priesthood after the order of Melchisedech, He pleads, in Heaven, what He has commanded us to plead on earth.

1868 T. T. Lynch Rivulet (ed. 3) cx. 131 And the pale Victim, in the strife, Eternal priesthood earns.

1897 R. C. Moberly Ministerial Priesthood iii. 87 The true rationale and the true distinction (within the inclusive priesthood of the Christian Church Body) at once of the priesthood of the Christian layman, and of the priesthood of the Christian minister.

1977 J. N. M. Wijngaards Did Christ rule out Women Priests? vii. 64 Christ replaced a priesthood based on sacrality by a priesthood based on grace.

2000 Church Times 2 June 8/3 The use of this new festival perhaps allows more time at Ascensiontide to reflect not only on the kingship of Christ, but on his priesthood.

†c. The priestly office personified. Obsolete.

ΚΠ

c1400 (c1378) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Laud 581) (1869) B. xix. 329 (MED) Grace deuised A carte hyȝte cristendome to carye pieres sheues..And made presthode haywarde.

c1500 (?a1475) Assembly of Gods (1896) 839 (MED) Preesthood theym folowyd with the Sacramentes, And Sadnesse also with the Commaundementes.

c1500 (?a1475) Assembly of Gods (1896) 1426 Soo thedyr went Presthod with benygnyte.

†d. With possessive adjective: a mock title of respect for a priest. Obsolete. rare.

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

a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 2 (1623) ii. i. 23 What, Cardinall? Is your Priest-hood growne peremptorie?

2. Priests collectively; a body of priests. Also figurative.

ΘΚΠ

society > faith > church government > member of the clergy > priest > [noun] > priests collectively

clergyc1275

priesthoodc1384

discreetnessa1450

discretion1486

sacerdosa1592

priestery1650

sacerdotage1860

c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Royal) 1 Pet. ii. 9 Ȝe ben a kynde chosun, kyngly presthod, holy folk [1526 Tindale, a chosen generacion, a royall presthod].

c1400 (?a1387) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Huntington HM 137) (1873) C. xvii. 245 Ryght so out of holychurche al vuel spredeþ, Theer inparfit preest-hod is, prechours and techours.

a1425 Bible (Wycliffite, L.V.) (New Coll. Oxf.) (1850) 1 Pet. ii. 9 Gloss. Ȝe ben of the kyn of God, a kingly presthod; that is, maad lijc Crist, which is king and prest.

1539 Bible (Great) 1 Tim. iv. 14 The layinge on of handes by the auctoryte of presthode.

c1540 (?a1400) Gest Historiale Destr. Troy 11778 The glemyng of gold, þat glottes þere hertis..puttes the pouer of pristhode abake.

1679 J. Dryden & N. Lee Oedipus iii. 42 O why has Priest-hood priviledge to lye, And yet to be believ'd!

1756 tr. J. G. Keyssler Trav. I. 339 This severity is easily accounted for from the dignity assumed by the priesthood.

1798 J. Baillie Funeral Disc. Death of Papacy 28 The church of Scotland gave too much power to the people, and too little to the priesthood.

1821 Ld. Byron Marino Faliero (2nd issue) i. ii. 21 But the priests—I doubt the priesthood Will not be with us.

1892 W. Cather Tale of White Pyramid in J. R. Shively Writings from Willa Cather's Campus Years (1950) 13 The army was there, and the priesthood, and men of all ranks.

1925 Amer. Mercury July 318/2 Ability to spiel the stuff is the exclusive possession of the priesthood.

1959 K. Rexroth Bird in Bush 123 The Zaddikkim were priests, and as such the only priesthood surviving in Jewry outside of the Falasha of Abyssinia.

1989 Times 4 July 12/3 The Church needs a wholly pious priesthood much more than a layer of clubbable good companions.

3. A group having specialized (frequently arcane) knowledge combined with power or influence and (usually) high status.

ΚΠ

1805 W. Taylor in Ann. Rev. 3 257 Schemes of public instruction..may hire the literary priesthood of philosophy, to all the servility which it imputes to the Christian clergy.

1851 Times 18 Apr. 4/1 It must indeed be a morbid jealousy for revelation which..would disparage the great sacrament of nature, the priesthood of science, and the not less sacred than salutary ministrations of art.

1901 Daily Chron. 18 Oct. 6/7 There must be a priesthood of medicine.

1977 Time 4 Apr. 50/1 Schlesinger is a systems analyst, a member of a special American priesthood that has grown up to cope with the many questions concerning the effectiveness of government and business strategies.

1995 Wired Apr. 94/2 In any medium, there's an entrenched priesthood that has control of the technology, control of the medium, control of the economics.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	priesthood
释义	priesthoodn. Brit. /ˈpriːsthʊd/, U.S. /ˈpristˌ(h)ʊd/ Forms: see priest n. and -hood suffix; also Middle English presthold, Middle English prestod, 1500s prestwoode. Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: priest n., -hood suffix. Etymology: < priest n. + -hood suffix.Compare Middle English pristis hade the office of a priest (one isolated attestation: see quot. a1400 at priesthead n.; < the genitive of priest n. + had n.). Compare also Old English mæsseprēosthād the office or function of a mass-priest ( < mass-priest n. + -hood suffix). 1. a. The office or function of a priest; the condition or status of being a priest; the order of priest. 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 OE Aldhelm Glosses (Brussels 1650) in L. Goossens Old Eng. Glosses of MS Brussels, Royal Libr. 1650 (1974) 382 Clericatus : preosthades. OE tr. Bede Eccl. Hist. (Cambr. Univ. Libr.) i. vii. 34 Ða gelamp þæt he sumne Godes mann preosthades [L. clericum quendam]..on gestliðnysse onfeng. a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) (1961) Lev. xxi. 10 Þe bischoop þat is þe most prest among his briþeren..whoos hoondys in presthood [L. sacerdotio] been sacred..his heed he shal not discoueren. a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1872) IV. 105 Symon..bouȝte þe preosthood of Appolinus, duke of Phenicia. ?c1430 (c1400) J. Wyclif Eng. Wks. (1880) 58 Who euere comeþ to prestod. c1475 (?c1400) Apol. Lollard Doctr. (1842) 32 (MED) And tak þei ȝed how Gregor seiþ to presthod; he seiþ not to cure. a1500 (?c1425) Speculum Sacerdotale (1936) 164 (MED) He come in-to the office of prestehode by sorte and ȝede in-to þe temple to offre sacrifice. 1549 Forme & Maner consecratyng Archebishoppes sig. G.i Reuerende father in God, I present vnto you these persones present, to be admitted to the Order of Priesthod. 1662 E. Stillingfleet Origines Sacræ ii. vii. §12 When an order of Priesthood different from the Aaronicall should be set up. 1681 J. Dryden Absalom & Achitophel (1760) 1 Since men like beasts each other's prey were made, Since trade began, and priesthood grew a trade. 1729 W. Law Serious Call x. 142 He therefore..is like him that abuses the priesthood. 1782 J. Barnard Sermon 79 The eminent degree of Sanctity and Perfection which every one ought to be possessed of, who expects to be admitted to the Priesthood. 1810 A. L. Barbauld Brit. Novelists I. 23 All that is recorded of Sethos is, merely that there was such a prince, and that, for some reason or other, he entered into the priesthood. 1865 R. W. Dale Jewish Temple xiii. 139 It was these circumstances that made the priesthood of Melchizedek unique. 1952 R. A. Knox Hidden Stream xx. 190 The institution of the priesthood rounds off the sacramental system by making it clear to us that it is a family system; the priest is the father of the family and the head of the family. 1984 Christadelphian Sept. 323/2 Now that they were in actual danger of exclusion from the priesthood, the sacrifices and the feasts, they were filled with anguish. b. The priestly office of Christ, of the Church, or of all Christian believers. ΘΚΠ the world > the supernatural > deity > Christian God > the Trinity > the Son or Christ > [noun] > priestly office of priesthoodc1384 society > faith > aspects of faith > [noun] > person(s) having > office of priesthood1897 society > faith > sect > Christianity > person > [noun] > collective > part of > office of priesthood1897 c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) Heb. vii. 24 Forsoth this man [sc. Christ], for that he dwelle into withouten ende, hath euerelastyng presthod. a1456 J. Lydgate Minor Poems (1911) i. 37 (MED) Þis chosen Aaron bering a liknesse..Of trewe preesthode [v.r. priesthod] and goostly parfytnesse, Þis Innocent, þis lambe with large wounde. a1500 (c1410) Dives & Pauper (Hunterian) (1976) i. 98 (MED) Seynt Luke spak mest of his presthod and began his gospel at presthod. 1686 J. Scott Christian Life: Pt. II II. vii. 687 To explain the Priesthood, and Priestly Acts of our Saviour. 1728 J. Dodson Twelve Disc. 23 The Apostle to the Hebrews making a Comparison between the Priesthood of Christ, and the Levitical Priesthood [etc.]. 1794 A. Callander Thoughts on Peaceable & Spiritual Nature Christ’s Kingdom I. 108 The eternal priesthood of Christ, by the which we draw nigh unto God. 1851 E. B. Pusey Let. to Bp. London 25 In His abiding Priesthood after the order of Melchisedech, He pleads, in Heaven, what He has commanded us to plead on earth. 1868 T. T. Lynch Rivulet (ed. 3) cx. 131 And the pale Victim, in the strife, Eternal priesthood earns. 1897 R. C. Moberly Ministerial Priesthood iii. 87 The true rationale and the true distinction (within the inclusive priesthood of the Christian Church Body) at once of the priesthood of the Christian layman, and of the priesthood of the Christian minister. 1977 J. N. M. Wijngaards Did Christ rule out Women Priests? vii. 64 Christ replaced a priesthood based on sacrality by a priesthood based on grace. 2000 Church Times 2 June 8/3 The use of this new festival perhaps allows more time at Ascensiontide to reflect not only on the kingship of Christ, but on his priesthood. †c. The priestly office personified. Obsolete. ΚΠ c1400 (c1378) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Laud 581) (1869) B. xix. 329 (MED) Grace deuised A carte hyȝte cristendome to carye pieres sheues..And made presthode haywarde. c1500 (?a1475) Assembly of Gods (1896) 839 (MED) Preesthood theym folowyd with the Sacramentes, And Sadnesse also with the Commaundementes. c1500 (?a1475) Assembly of Gods (1896) 1426 Soo thedyr went Presthod with benygnyte. †d. With possessive adjective: a mock title of respect for a priest. Obsolete. rare. 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 a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 2 (1623) ii. i. 23 What, Cardinall? Is your Priest-hood growne peremptorie? View more context for this quotation 2. Priests collectively; a body of priests. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ society > faith > church government > member of the clergy > priest > [noun] > priests collectively clergyc1275 priesthoodc1384 discreetnessa1450 discretion1486 sacerdosa1592 priestery1650 sacerdotage1860 c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Royal) 1 Pet. ii. 9 Ȝe ben a kynde chosun, kyngly presthod, holy folk [1526 Tindale, a chosen generacion, a royall presthod]. c1400 (?a1387) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Huntington HM 137) (1873) C. xvii. 245 Ryght so out of holychurche al vuel spredeþ, Theer inparfit preest-hod is, prechours and techours. a1425 Bible (Wycliffite, L.V.) (New Coll. Oxf.) (1850) 1 Pet. ii. 9 Gloss. Ȝe ben of the kyn of God, a kingly presthod; that is, maad lijc Crist, which is king and prest. 1539 Bible (Great) 1 Tim. iv. 14 The layinge on of handes by the auctoryte of presthode. c1540 (?a1400) Gest Historiale Destr. Troy 11778 The glemyng of gold, þat glottes þere hertis..puttes the pouer of pristhode abake. 1679 J. Dryden & N. Lee Oedipus iii. 42 O why has Priest-hood priviledge to lye, And yet to be believ'd! 1756 tr. J. G. Keyssler Trav. I. 339 This severity is easily accounted for from the dignity assumed by the priesthood. 1798 J. Baillie Funeral Disc. Death of Papacy 28 The church of Scotland gave too much power to the people, and too little to the priesthood. 1821 Ld. Byron Marino Faliero (2nd issue) i. ii. 21 But the priests—I doubt the priesthood Will not be with us. 1892 W. Cather Tale of White Pyramid in J. R. Shively Writings from Willa Cather's Campus Years (1950) 13 The army was there, and the priesthood, and men of all ranks. 1925 Amer. Mercury July 318/2 Ability to spiel the stuff is the exclusive possession of the priesthood. 1959 K. Rexroth Bird in Bush 123 The Zaddikkim were priests, and as such the only priesthood surviving in Jewry outside of the Falasha of Abyssinia. 1989 Times 4 July 12/3 The Church needs a wholly pious priesthood much more than a layer of clubbable good companions. 3. A group having specialized (frequently arcane) knowledge combined with power or influence and (usually) high status. ΚΠ 1805 W. Taylor in Ann. Rev. 3 257 Schemes of public instruction..may hire the literary priesthood of philosophy, to all the servility which it imputes to the Christian clergy. 1851 Times 18 Apr. 4/1 It must indeed be a morbid jealousy for revelation which..would disparage the great sacrament of nature, the priesthood of science, and the not less sacred than salutary ministrations of art. 1901 Daily Chron. 18 Oct. 6/7 There must be a priesthood of medicine. 1977 Time 4 Apr. 50/1 Schlesinger is a systems analyst, a member of a special American priesthood that has grown up to cope with the many questions concerning the effectiveness of government and business strategies. 1995 Wired Apr. 94/2 In any medium, there's an entrenched priesthood that has control of the technology, control of the medium, control of the economics. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.OE
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