An official minister of a religion other than Christianity or the ancient Hebrew religion.
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释义 | society > faith > church government > member of the clergy > priest > kinds of priest > [noun] > heathen (general) (12) priestc1275 An official minister of a religion other than Christianity or the ancient Hebrew religion. flamenc1400 transferred. Applied to other priests, etc. fire-kindler1563 clergyman1609 transferred. Applied to priests of non-Christian religions. (Cf. clergy, n. 3.) Obsolete. fetisheer1613 A charmer, sorcerer, ‘medicine-man’; a priest. divinea1616 Applied to non-Christian writers on theology, and to the priests of heathen religions. Obsolete. churchman1632 A priest or official minister of any religion other than Christianity. shaman1698 A priest or priest-doctor among various northern peoples of Asia. Hence applied by extension to similar personages in other parts, esp. a… Baal-priest1834 General attributive as in Baal-priest, Baal-worship. santero1950 A priest (or priestess) of a religious cult, esp. santeria. Subcategories:— collectively (1) — female (1) |
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