sacerdotal

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   relating to priests, the priesthood, or priestly functions

   The ceremony preserved several sacerdotal vestments and gestures.

2. 2
   adj

   supporting or characterized by the special authority of a priesthood

   The reformers opposed a sacerdotal system that reserved sacred knowledge for clerics.

From Middle French sacerdotal and Latin sacerdotalis ("priestly"), from sacerdos ("priest"), traditionally analyzed from sacer ("sacred") + a form related to dare ("to give").

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