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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Priesthood \Priest"hood\, n.
1. The office or character of a priest; the priestly
function. --Bk. of Com. Prayer.
2. Priests, taken collectively; the order of men set apart
for sacred offices; the order of priests.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
priesthood
n : the body of ordained religious practitioners
From Jargon File (4.2.3, 23 NOV 2000) [jargon]:
priesthood n. obs. [TMRC] The select group of system managers
responsible for the operation and maintenance of a batch operated computer
system. On these computers, a user never had direct access to a computer,
but had to submit his/her data and programs to a priest for execution.
Results were returned days or even weeks later See {acolyte}.
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