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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)

sacerdotal
    adj 1: of or relating to a belief in sacerdotalism; "sacerdotal
           emphasis on the authority of priests"
    2: associated with the priesthood or priests; "priestly (or
       sacerdotal) vestments"; "hieratic gestures" [syn: priestly,
       hieratic, hieratical, sacerdotal]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Sacerdotal \Sac`er*do"tal\, a. [L. sacerdotalis, fr. sacerdos,
   -otis, a priest, fr. sacer holy, sacred: cf. F. sacerdotal.]
   Of or pertaining to priests, or to the order of priests;
   relating to the priesthood; priesty; as, sacerdotal dignity;
   sacerdotal functions.
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         The ascendency of the sacerdotal order was long the
         ascendency which naturally and properly belongs to
         intellectual superiority.                --Macaulay.
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Thesaurus Results for sacerdotal:

1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

abbatial, abbatical, apostolic, archiepiscopal, canonical, capitular, capitulary, ceremonial, ceremonious, churchly, clerical, conventional, decorous, ecclesiastic, ecclesiastical, episcopal, episcopalian, evangelistic, hieratic, liturgic, ministerial, papal, pastoral, pompous, prelatial, prelatic, priest-ridden, priestish, priestly, rabbinic, religious, ritual, ritualistic, solemn, stately, ultramontane, well-mannered

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