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Meanings of priest in английском

русский
поп
португальский
sacerdote
испанский
padre
каталонский
sacerdot
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f. priestess

Religious occupation.

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поп
Wikidata

Blunt instrument for killing fish or other game.

португальский
padre
каталонский
sacerdot
испанский
sacerdote

A person who performs religious duties and ceremonies in a non-Christian religion.

padre

A minister of the Catholic church empowered to administer the sacraments, most particularly that of the Eucharist or Holy Communion, as well as those of confession and extreme unction.

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Examples for "clergyman"
Examples for "clergyman"
1
The coldness of the clergyman was forgotten in the bitterness of self-reproach.
Turns of Fortune, and Other Tales
2
Doubts may occasionally press in; and it is so with every clergyman.
Septimius Felton, or, the Elixir of Life
3
Spinrobin surreptitiously picked up his pencil; but the clergyman spied the movement.
The Human Chord
4
The tones of the clergyman were no longer revolting in his ears.
The Abandoned Room
5
A light began to glow in the eyes of the young clergyman.
The Tyranny of the Dark
Usage of priest in английском
1
The high priest said to Houphouët, 'All right, you want eternal power.
The masque of africa: glimpses of african belief
2
The young priest developed a lively student discussion and social action group.
The Irish Times
3
The priest-captain knows immediately upon awakening that something has, indeed, gone wrong.
The Hyperion Cantos
4
The duties of the priest were confined to ministration in the temple.
History of the Conquest of Peru
5
The priest had been greatly interested in the mission of the knight.
In the Court of King Arthur
6
The priest moved about in the moonlight trying to comfort the people.
The Junior Classics, Volume 7: Stories of Courage and Heroism
7
The stranger started for it; but turned back on seeing the priest.
The City and the World and Other Stories
8
And in a moment I was at the side of the priest.
In Those Days: The Story of an Old Man
9
The religious element in Socialism had found in him its high priest.
The One Woman: A Story of Modern Utopia
10
The latter, the priest of the oracle answered in his own language.
The Boys' and Girls' Plutarch / Being Parts of the "Lives" of Pl...
11
This was not quite what the priest had meant by his question.
A Case of Conscience
12
Take the priest with you; I will see to the wounded here.
At Agincourt
13
I had news from a priest in the diocese of the Coadjutor.
London Pride, Or, When the World Was Younger
14
Not in the least discouraged were the Manichees: they sent another priest.
Saint Augustin
15
He was the arch-priest of all sensationalism in the guise of logic.
Beacon Lights of History, Volume 13: Great Writers / Dr Lord's U...
16
The old priest grew drowsy in the warm sunlight and fell asleep.
AE in the Irish Theosophist
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