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Webster 1913 Edition

Adj.

[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

The ascendency of the

sacerdotal

order was long the ascendency which naturally and properly belongs to intellectual superiority.

Macaulay.

Adj.

[L. sacerdotalis, from sacerdos, a priest. See Sacred.]

Pertaining to priests or the priesthood; priestly; as sacerdotal dignity; sacerdotal functions or garments; sacerdotal character.