sacerdotal : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: sacerdotal	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for sacerdotal
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
sacerdotal adj of or relating to a belief in sacerdotalism; "sacerdotal emphasis on the authority of priests" associated with the priesthood or priests; "priestly (or sacerdotal) vestments"; "hieratic gestures" Synonym(s): priestly, hieratic, hieratical, sacerdotal
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Sacerdotal \Sac`erdo"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.