2 definitions found
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Sacerdotal \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.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
sacerdotal
adj 1: of or relating to a belief in sacerdotalism; "sacerdotal
emphasis on the authority of priests"
2: associated with the priesthood or priests; "priestly (or
sacerdotal) vestments"; "hieratic gestures" [syn: {priestly},
{hieratic}, {hieratical}]
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