sacerdotal

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}]
    

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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37 Moby Thesaurus words for "sacerdotal":
      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