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Dictionary Results for Priestcraft:

1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)

priestcraft
    n 1: a derogatory reference to priests who use their influence
         to control secular or political affairs
    2: the skills involved in the work of a priest

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Priestcraft \Priest"craft`\, n.
   Priestly policy; the policy of a priesthood; esp., in an ill
   sense, fraud or imposition in religious concerns; management
   by priests to gain wealth and power by working upon the
   religious motives or credulity of others.
   [1913 Webster]

         It is better that men should be governed by priestcraft
         than by violence.                        --Macaulay.
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