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Meanings of priestly functions in English

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Usage of priestly functions in English
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With these priestly functions he united an assiduous devotion to his saints.
Life of Luther
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This combination of priestly functions with royal authority is familiar to every one.
The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion
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The priestly functions of the librarians are historically unimportant.
The History of Roman Literature / From the Earliest Period to th...
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Then the mixed race thus formed seems to have taken over some of the priestly functions.
Witchcraft Today
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To be ordained beyond the seas and to exercise priestly functions in England is now a crime.
By What Authority?
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The king, in fact, inherited his priesthood from him, and was consequently qualified to perform priestly functions.
Early Israel and the Surrounding Nations
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He was not of the priestly family, no man laid hands upon him, he never exercised priestly functions.
Morality as a Religion / An exposition of some first principles
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At the age of twenty-six, after seven years in Jerusalem, during which he exercised his priestly functions, he journeyed to Rome.
Josephus
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Shamans are not the same as priests; they may coexist with priests or even fulfill priestly functions as well as shamanic ones.
Drawing Down the Moon
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The first Mosque, or meeting place, was built very soon after his arrival in Medinah, and he entered upon his priestly functions.
Mohammed, The Prophet of Islam
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Hence the king, starting as a magician, tends gradually to exchange the practice of magic for the priestly functions of prayer and sacrifice.
The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion
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The Prior is a haughty Spanish Churchman, who has inherited all the traits of a noble family, and is proud of his priestly functions.
George Eliot; a Critical Study of Her Life, Writings and Philoso...
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Fr Buckley states that the letter from Bishop Walsh suspending him from his priestly functions was sent on June 14th, 1998.
The Irish Times
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On the 2d of October 1886, therefore, he was formally "suspended" from his priestly functions-norhas he ever since been permitted to resume them.
Ireland Under Coercion: The Diary of an American (1 of 2) / (2nd...
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(Cohen) So called, by a title of honour, and not from exercising the priestly functions.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Old Testament — Part 1
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