Definition of Priest

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Priest

A presbyter elder; a minister

One who is authorized to consecrate the host and to say Mass; but especially, one of the lowest order possessing this power.

A presbyter; one who belongs to the intermediate order between bishop and deacon. He is authorized to perform all ministerial services except those of ordination and confirmation.

One who officiates at the altar, or performs the rites of sacrifice; one who acts as a mediator between men and the divinity or the gods in any form of religion; as, Buddhist priests.

To ordain as priest.

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Priest Quotations

In every country and every age, the priest had been hostile to Liberty.
Thomas Jefferson

The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was: "If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?" But... the good Samaritan reversed the question: "If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?"
Martin Luther King, Jr.

A friend will tell you she saw your old boyfriend - and he's a priest.
Erma Bombeck

The vow of celibacy is a matter of keeping one's word to Christ and the Church. a duty and a proof of the priest's inner maturity; it is the expression of his personal dignity.
Pope John Paul II

From the solemn gloom of the temple children run out to sit in the dust, God watches them play and forgets the priest.
Rabindranath Tagore

Find a priest who understands English and doesn't look like Rasputin.
Aristotle Onassis

When I was in sixth grade, I wanted to become a priest.
Mike Krzyzewski

No lying knight or lying priest ever prospered in any age, but especially not in the dark ones. Men prospered then only in following an openly declared purpose, and preaching candidly beloved and trusted creeds.
John Ruskin

There exist only three respectable beings: the priest, the warrior, the poet. To know, to kill, and to create.
Charles Baudelaire

The priest is an immense being because he makes the crowd believe astonishing things.
Charles Baudelaire

Priest Translations

priest in Dutch is pastoor, geestelijke, pastor
priest in German is Priester
priest in Hungarian is katolikus pap
priest in Italian is sacerdote
priest in Spanish is preste, sacerdote

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