priest

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. The highest office in the Aaronic priesthood. Mormonism
动词 v.
  1. To ordain as a priest. transitive
    — 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.

词形变化

priests plural priests present,singular,third-person priesting participle,present priested participle,past priested past

词汇关系

衍生词
a dumb priest never got a parish antipriest archpriest archpriesthood astronomer-priest brown priest chief priest choke-priest die roaring for a priest fetish priest head priest hedge priest highpriest high priest high priestess highpriesthood highpriestly highpriestship hypepriest kill-priest mass priest parish priest priestal priestcap priestcraft priest-doctor priestdom priestery priestess Priestfield priest hole priesthood priestianity priestish priestism priest-king priestless priestlet priestlike priestliness priestling priestly priest-monk priestress priest-ridden priestship priestx protopriest proto-priest religious priest supply priest underpriest unpriest worker-priest
并列词
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词源

词源 1
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.
词源 2
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.
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