Meaning of SACERDOTAL
| Pronunciation: | | `saku'dowtul
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- [adj] associated with the priesthood or priests; "priestly (or sacerdotal) vestments"; "hieratic gestures"
- [adj] of or relating to a belief in sacerdotalism; "sacerdotal emphasis on the authority of priests"
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| | Synonyms: | | hieratic, hieratical, priestly |
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| | Definition: | | \Sac`er*do"tal\, a. [L. sacerdotalis, fr. sacerdos,
-otis, a priest, fr. sacer holy, sacred: cf. F. sacerdotal.]
Of or pertaining to priests, or to the order of priests;
relating to the priesthood; priesty; as, sacerdotal dignity;
sacerdotal functions.
The ascendency of the sacerdotal order was long the
ascendency which naturally and properly belongs to
intellectual superiority. --Macaulay.
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