priest

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A religious clergyman (clergywoman, clergyperson) who is trained to perform services or sacrifices at a church or temple.

   The priest at the Catholic church heard his confession.

2. 2
   noun

   A blunt tool, used for quickly stunning and killing fish.

   They flop and struggle, but she unhooks them swiftly, stunning them with a small brass priest.

3. 3
   verb

   To ordain as a priest.

   If there bee any lasie fellow, any that cannot away with worke, any that would wallow in pleasures, hee is hastie to be priested. And when hee is made one, and has gotten a benefice, he consorts with his neighbour priests, who are altogether given to pleasures; and then both hee, and they, live, not like Christians, but like epicures; drinking, eating, feasting, and revelling, till the cow come home, as the saying is.

4. 4
   noun

   a clergyman in Christian churches who has the authority to perform or administer various religious rites

5. 5
   noun

   a person who performs religious duties and ceremonies in a non-Christian religion

6. 6
   noun

   The highest office in the Aaronic priesthood.

7. 7
   name

   A surname.

Etymology

From Middle English prest, preest, from Old English prēost (“priest”), from Late Latin presbyter, from Ancient Greek πρεσβύτερος (presbúteros), from πρέσβυς (présbus, “elder, older”). Reinforced in Middle English by Old French prestre, also from Latin presbyter. Doublet of presbyter and prester.