Meanings of sacerdotal order in English

Moses, in his legislation for his nation, separated them, and instituted a sacerdotal order or caste.

Why, they asked, were none but members of the sacerdotal order to be intrusted with this duty?

The ascendancy of the sacerdotal order was long the ascendancy which naturally and properly belongs to intellectual superiority.

The selection of this problem of course rests with the sacerdotal order, or in other words, with the High Priest.

The sacerdotal order, though numerous, was not distinguished by any peculiar badge or costume from the rest of the nation.

The sacerdotal order consisted of high-priests, prophets, scribes, keepers of the sacred robes and animals, sacred sculptors, masons, and embalmers.

That the sacerdotal order should encroach on the functions of the civil magistrate would, in our time, be a great evil.

That the sacerdotal order should encroach on the functions of the chief magistrate, would in our time be a great evil.

He had already flung a daring challenge to the sacerdotal order represented by the eminent ecclesiastics residing in Najaf, Karbilá and Kazímayn.

The whole number of functionaries, including those of the sacerdotal order, who officiated at the Coricancha alone, was no less than four thousand.25

From the age of Numa to the reign of Gratian, the Romans preserved the regular succession of the several colleges of the sacerdotal order.

A famous "thieves' society," formed for the purpose of opening and plundering the royal tombs, contained among its members persons of the sacerdotal order.

Like the Mosaic Law, under the sedulous care of the sacerdotal orders it ripened into a most burdensome ritualism.