MEANING
Relating to priests or their duties and authority.
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- sacerdotal vestments
- sacerdotal authority
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Sacerdotal vestments hung in the room beyond the choir.
He spoke of sacerdotal authority without naming the priest who held it.
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- sacerdotal
Usage notes
Primary category: gothic. Forms: Normally non-gradable as a religious relation; degree language requires a meaningful context. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.
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