sacerdosn.
rare.
The Latin word for ‘priest’; in quot. a1592 used as a plural.
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priesteOE
presbyterOE
sirec1290
beauperec1300
sirc1386
fatherhooda1393
fatherheada1434
paternity1439
pater1481
fathershipa1500
father1528
key-bearer?1531
key-keeper?1556
vicegerent1572
priestdom1588
sacerdosa1592
flasher1611
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père1619
sacerdote1685
firekeeper1789
soggarth1836
priestship1868
soutane1890
joss-man1913
society > faith > church government > member of the clergy > priest > [noun] > priests collectively
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discreetnessa1450
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sacerdosa1592
priestery1650
sacerdotage1860
a1592 R. Greene Frier Bacon (1594) sig. D4 No no, out with your blades, and hamper these iades,..And teach these Sacerdos, that the Bocardos..are meet for themselues.
1930 E. Pound Draft of XXX Cantos xxix. 135 As who with four hands at the cross roads By King's hand or sacerdos' are given their freedom.
1949 E. Pound Pisan Cantos (new ed.) lxxx. 92 Torn from the sacerdos hurled into unstillness.
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