The Century dictionary and cyclopedia; a work of universal reference in all departments of knowledge, with a new atlas of the world .. . m of management based 4722 on temporal or material interest; the arts prac-tised by selfish and ambitious priests to gainwealth and power, or to imj)ose on the credu-lity of others. From priestcraft happily set free,Lo! every finishd son retui-ns to thee. Pope, Dunciad, iv. 499. Specimens of the priestcraft by which the greater partof Cliristendom had been fooled. Macaulay, Hist. Eng., vi. priestcrafty (prestkrafti), a. [< priestcraft+ -//I.] Relating to o
The Century dictionary and cyclopedia; a work of universal reference in all departments of knowledge, with a new atlas of the world .. . m of management based 4722 on temporal or material interest; the arts prac-tised by selfish and ambitious priests to gainwealth and power, or to imj)ose on the credu-lity of others. From priestcraft happily set free,Lo! every finishd son retui-ns to thee. Pope, Dunciad, iv. 499. Specimens of the priestcraft by which the greater partof Cliristendom had been fooled. Macaulay, Hist. Eng., vi. priestcrafty (prestkrafti), a. [< priestcraft+ -//I.] Relating to or characterized by priest-craft, JVorccfitcr, [Rare.]priesteryt (prester-i), a. [< pru\^t + -rr^.]Priests colUctivcly; the priesthood: in eon-tempt. (prestes), n. [< priest + -ess.] woman who officiates in sacred , as priestess, knows the ritesWherein the God of earth delights. SiHft, Stellas Birthday, 1722. 2t. The wife or concubine of a (prestfish), u. [Tr. F. peche-pretre.]The black rockfish of California, Sebastichthi/sDii/stiiuis or melanops. it is of a slaty-black color,. Priest-fish {Sebaslichihys ittystintts). paler below, and attains a length of a foot or more. It isthe most abundant scorpsenoid fish about San Francisco,and is found from Puget Sound to San (presthiid), n. [< ME. jn-ecsthooel,jtrestliod, < AS. preosthdd, < preosi, priest, +hddj condition: seepWes^ and-/ioof/.] 1. Theofi&ce or cliaracter of a priest. Chaplain, away! thy priesthood saves thy life. 5/irt/f.,3Hen. VI., i. 3. 3. 2. The order of men set apart for sacred offices j priests collectively. priest-ill (prestil), n. The a^ue. EalJhvcll.[Prov. Eng.] priestlike (prestllk), a. [< prk-st + Vl-e.] Re-sembling a priest, or that which belongs topriests; sacerdotal. A priestlike habit of crimson and purple. B. Jonson, Masque of Beauty. The moving waters at their ])riestlike taskOf pure ablution round earths human shores. Kea
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