priest
noun
- religious minister
- blunt instrument for killing fish or other game
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /ˈpɹiːst/ / [ˈpɹ̥iːst]
name
Etymology: From Middle English Prest.
- A surname.
noun
Etymology: From Middle English prest, preest, from Old English prēost (“priest”), from Late Latin presbyter, from Ancient Greek πρεσβύτερος (presbúteros), from πρέσβυς (présbus, “elder, older”). Reinforced in Middle English by Old French prestre, also from Latin presbyter. Doublet of presbyter and prester. * The Tyndale Bible uses native English elder instead.
- A religious clergyman (clergywoman, clergyperson) who is trained to perform services or sacrifices at a church or temple.
“The priest at the Catholic church heard his confession.”
“The Shinto priest burnt incense for his ancestors.”
- A blunt tool, used for quickly stunning and killing fish.
“They flop and struggle, but she unhooks them swiftly, stunning them with a small brass priest.”
- The highest office in the Aaronic priesthood.
verb
Etymology: From Middle English prest, preest, from Old English prēost (“priest”), from Late Latin presbyter, from Ancient Greek πρεσβύτερος (presbúteros), from πρέσβυς (présbus, “elder, older”). Reinforced in Middle English by Old French prestre, also from Latin presbyter. Doublet of presbyter and prester. * The Tyndale Bible uses native English elder instead.
- To ordain as a priest.
“If there bee any lasie fellow, any that cannot away with worke, any that would wallow in pleasures, hee is hastie to be priested. And when hee is made one, and has gotten a benefice, he consorts with his neighbour priests, who are altogether given to pleasures; and then both hee, and they, live, not like Christians, but like epicures; drinking, eating, feasting, and revelling, till the cow come home, as the saying is.”
“He was deaconed on the 23rd May, and priested on the 29th September, 1624, by John, Bishop of Sodar and Man.”