Priest
A presbyter elder; a minister
One who is authorized to consecrate the host and to say Mass; but especially, one of the lowest order possessing this power.
A presbyter; one who belongs to the intermediate order between bishop and deacon. He is authorized to perform all ministerial services except those of ordination and confirmation.
One who officiates at the altar, or performs the rites of sacrifice; one who acts as a mediator between men and the divinity or the gods in any form of religion; as, Buddhist priests.
To ordain as priest.
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Priest Quotations
The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was: "If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?" But... the good Samaritan reversed the question: "If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?"
Martin Luther King, Jr.
In every country and every age, the priest had been hostile to Liberty.
Thomas Jefferson
Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.
Denis Diderot
A friend will tell you she saw your old boyfriend - and he's a priest.
Erma Bombeck
From the solemn gloom of the temple children run out to sit in the dust, God watches them play and forgets the priest.
Rabindranath Tagore
The vow of celibacy is a matter of keeping one's word to Christ and the Church. a duty and a proof of the priest's inner maturity; it is the expression of his personal dignity.
Pope John Paul II
When I was in sixth grade, I wanted to become a priest.
Mike Krzyzewski
There exist only three beings worthy of respect: the priest, the soldier, the poet. To know, to kill, to create.
Charles Baudelaire
The priest is an immense being because he makes the crowd believe astonishing things.
Charles Baudelaire
The poet is the priest of the invisible.
Wallace Stevens
Priest Translations
priest in Dutch is pastoor, geestelijke, pastor
priest in German is Priester
priest in Hungarian is katolikus pap
priest in Italian is sacerdote
priest in Spanish is preste, sacerdote
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