Crossword-Solution: SACERDOTAL
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Sacerdotal | a. | Of or pertaining to priests, or to the order of priests; relating to the priesthood; priesty; as, sacerdotal dignity; sacerdotal functions. |
We have 4 clues for the answer “SACERDOTAL”
| Clue | Answers |
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| sacerdotical | 1 answer |
| hieratic | 11 answers |
| Priestly | 12 answers |
| ecclesiastical | 22 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TEERA
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with SACERDOTAL (5)
Age, while bestowing on this garment a patine worthy of a Renaissance bronze, had deprived it of whatever curves the wearer's pre-Raphaelite figure had once been able to impress on it; but this stiffness of outline gave it an air of sacerdotal state which seemed to emphasize the importance of the occasion.
When the officiating priest, to save that garment, took the child in his arms, he nefariously polluted the sacerdotal vestments and the altar steps.
All these things tended to make us excessively obnoxious to the great sacerdotal clan, the most powerful because the most united faction in the kingdom.
Bernard cutting up his red sacerdotal vestments, and making crosses of them, to be sewn on the shoulders of the people.
Viewing, with a smile of pity and indulgence, the various errors of the vulgar, they diligently practised the ceremonies of their fathers, devoutly frequented the temples of the gods; and sometimes condescending to act a part on the theatre of superstition, they concealed the sentiments of an atheist under the sacerdotal robes.
Quotes with SACERDOTAL (3)
The first inkling of this notion had come to him the Christmas before, at his daughter's place in Vermont. On Christmas Eve, as indifferent evening took hold in the blue squares of the windows, he sat alone in the crepuscular kitchen, imbued with a profound sense of the identity of winter and twilight, of twilight and time, of time and memory, of his childhood and that church which on this night waited to celebrate the second greatest of its feasts. For a moment or an hour as…
[R]eligion arises not out of sacerdotal invention or chicanery, but out of the persistent wonder, fear, insecurity, hopefulness and loneliness of man.
The Impression that Pakistan being an Islamic State is thereby a Theocratic State is being sedulously fostered in certain quarters with the sole object of discrediting her in the eyes of the world. To anyone conversant with the basic principles of Islam, it should be obvious that in the fields of civics, Islam has always stood on complete social democracy and social justice, as the history of the early Caliphs will show, and has not sanctioned government by a sacerdotal class…
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, NYT.
Used 3 times in crossword archives (1974–1999).