Crossword-Solution: PRIESTLY 8 letters, 17 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 13

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Word Word Type Definition
Priestly a. Of or pertaining to a priest or the priesthood;
sacerdotal; befitting or becoming a priest; as, the priestly office; a
priestly farewell.

We have 17 clues for the answer “PRIESTLY”

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of, relating to, characteristic of, or befitting a priest 1 answer
befitting or characteristic of a priest or the priesthood 1 answer
Suitable for a clergyman. 1 answer
Jason on "Beverly Hills, 90210" 1 answer
Like Mass officiators 1 answer
Like some unwed fathers 1 answer
Like some vestments 1 answer
Like some robes 2 answers
ministerial 3 answers
sacerdotal 3 answers
episcopal 6 answers
hieratic 11 answers
clerical 15 answers
Pastoral 20 answers
ceremonial 22 answers
ecclesiastical 22 answers
Religious 53 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
RTEEA
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with PRIESTLY (5)

This latter step, however, there was no present prospect that Arthur Dimmesdale would be prevailed upon to take; he rejected all suggestions of the kind, as if priestly celibacy were one of his articles of Church discipline.
The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne 1992
There exists a monition of the Bishop of Durham against irregular churchmen of this class, who associated themselves with Border robbers, and desecrated the holiest offices of the priestly function, by celebrating them for the benefit of thieves, robbers, and murderers, amongst ruins and in caverns of the earth, without regard to canonical form, and with torn and dirty attire, and maimed rites, altogether improper for the occasion.
Ivanhoe Walter Scott 1993
Finally when the number of the sides becomes so numerous, and the sides themselves so small, that the figure cannot be distinguished from a circle, he is included in the Circular or Priestly order; and this is the highest class of all.
Flatland Edwin A. Abbott 1994
Being thus singled out, he was to go forth into the plague-stricken city, and to perform with exactness his priestly duties; then he was to return, not to the interior of the convent, for fear of infecting his brethren, but to a detached building (which I remember) belonging to the establishment, but at some little distance from the inhabited rooms.
Eothen A. W. Kinglake 2008
She deposed Zaemon from his government in name as well as in fact, and the news was spread, and the Priestly Clan rose in its wrath.
The Lost Continent C. J. Cutcliffe Hyne 2008

Quotes with PRIESTLY (3)

Let us practice the fine art of making every work a priestly ministration. Let us believe that God is in all our simple deeds and learn to find Him there.
A. W. Tozer The Pursuit of God
Manifest in this trade (commercial sale of indulgences via bankers) at the same time was a pernicious tendency in the Roman Catholic system, for the trade in indulgences was not an excess or an abuse but the direct consequence of the nomistic degradation of the gospel. That the Reformation started with Luther’s protest against this traffic in indulgences proves its religious origin and evangelical character. At issue here was nothing less than the essential character of the g…
Herman Bavinck
I see no priestly garments on you. There is no ephod on your belt. You presume to speak for Yahweh? You speak his name aloud so lightly?
Cliff Graham Day of War
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Appears in: CrosSynergy, LAT, NY Sun, NYT, USA TODAY.

Used 8 times in crossword archives (1953–2019).