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How to pronounce sacerdotal in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms hieratic, hieratical, priestly


priestly (or sacerdotal) vestments.
Type Words
Derivation sacerdotalism


sacerdotal emphasis on the authority of priests.

Examples of sacerdotal

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But it was also an effective attack on the Church and the sacerdotal system.
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The church sanctioned a sacerdotal kingship, confirming the royal line's legitimacy.
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Both wear contemporary sacerdotal vestments with a cape full of ribbons.
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In the Church there are sacerdotal orders and monastic orders.
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In Orthodox terminology, priesthood or sacerdotal refers to the ministry of bishops and priests.
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Chastity is required of the respective sacerdotal orders.
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Islam, like Judaism, has no clergy in the sacerdotal sense.
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Catharism attracted numerous women due to the promise of a sacerdotal role that the Catholic Church did not allow.
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Demotic grammar in the Ptolemaic sacerdotal decrees.
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More examples
  • Of or relating to a belief in sacerdotalism; "sacerdotal emphasis on the authority of priests"
  • Priestly: associated with the priesthood or priests; "priestly (or sacerdotal) vestments"; "hieratic gestures"
  • Sacerdotalism is the idea that a propitiatory sacrifice for sin must be offered by the intervention of an order of men separated to the priesthood. This system of the priesthood is taught in the Old Testament.Henry Eyster Jacobs, p. 417, "Sarcodotalism"
  • Having to do with priests, especially with the idea that priests offer sacrifices in the Communion service.
  • The duties of clergy: Ordinations, handfastings, births, consecrations, funerals, etc.