Crossword-Solution: PRETE 5 letters, 6 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 7

The prete in question was merely a wooden frame, in the midst of which hangs a scaldino filled with burning ashes--a most comforting ecclesiastic, I can assure you.

Your greatest clerks are not your wisest men: and when some foul absurdity in state is committed, it is common with the French, and even the Italians, to call it ‘pas de clerc,’ or ‘governo de prete.’ They may bear with men that will be preaching without study, while they will be governing without prudence.

Interiori Ćthiopiae imperat Abissinorum Rex, qui Presbyter sive Pretiosus Ioannes, vulgo _Prete Gianni_, vocatur; magno, recepto tamen errore; cum is quondam in Asiae, ut relatum est, regno _Tenduc_ regnaverit.

The bill of fare for this day runs thus:-- "Domenica delle Palme, nel Capella Papale nel Palazzo Apostolico, canta messa un Cardinal Prete.

III Lucrezia Gabbi came out onto the terrace of the Casa del Prete on Monte Amato, shaded her eyes with her brown hands, and gazed down across the ravine over the olive-trees and the vines to the mountain-side opposite, along which, among rocks and Barbary figs, wound a tiny track trodden by the few contadini whose stone cottages, some of them scarcely more than huts, were scattered here and there upon the surrounding heights that looked towards Etna and the sea.