PRIEST


Meaning of PRIEST in English

noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

high priest

the high priest of modern jazz

woman priest/doctor etc (= a priest etc who is a woman )

Ireland’s first woman president

women artists

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADJECTIVE

anglican

Here the boy met the first Anglican priest who interested him in religion.

catholic

Hernandez has a friendly relationship with Champigny's Catholic priests and deacons.

Spalding, after being warned of his peril by Catholic priest Father Brouillet, fled from the massacre to Lapwai.

For example, in 1900 the United States had about 40, 000 Roman Catholic priests .

So much for his promised imitation of a Catholic priest , she reflected bitterly.

He denounced Catholic priests as foreign agents who should be killed on sight.

Censorship, dictated by the military and Catholic priests , cut a lot.

Anna had me baptized by a Catholic priest .

high

This act of atonement was on behalf of the high priest and the priesthood generally.

For millions of Nepali Hindus the brahmins are high priest and local butcher.

And some high priests have told falsehoods.

In the next scene they could be the high priest .

The high priests and elders being still keen to press charges, Festus invited them to Caesarea to put their case.

That, to the high priest of the sanctuary of Shiloh, is not the most important item of news.

Even Government high priests are uneasy.

local

Offenders were to be denied the sacrament by the local priest .

One local priest has endured arrest and gone to court to obtain permission to conduct his sacrifices in public.

Typical of them is our local priest , Don Marco.

There may be a local priest or bishop to meet.

So they call out the local Jesuit priest , he takes a good sniff and says it's haunted.

There was the Nationalist Party, a weak organization for which local priests had to provide some kind of legitimation.

One of their companies reached Ainaro, questioned the local priests and some natives, but did them no harm.

On 4 July 1806 he passed away, the local priests and choir being present at his bedside for his spiritual comfort.

ordained

There is an unconfirmed suggestion that Diaper was ordained priest in 1715.

During this time he was ordained deacon and priest .

He was ordained priest in 1851.

The prayer opposite was composed last year by deacons on retreat before they were ordained priests and missionaries.

In June 1846 Talbot was ordained priest by Wiseman at Oscott.

In 1877 he was ordained priest and in 1878 took up his ministry in Wray-on-Windermere.

roman

In the Roman Catholic Church priests are sometimes appointed to look after the needs of a particular ethnic group.

A Roman Catholic priest who sexually abused a vulnerable parishioner was ordered to pay £64,000 damages to his victim.

For example, in 1900 the United States had about 40, 000 Roman Catholic priests .

Aristide, a left-wing Roman Catholic priest , had won by a landslide in the presidential elections on Dec. 16.

Some were spies, and three Roman Catholic priests came in disguise.

Mark, too, after the slightly disquieting observations about Roman Catholic priests , seemed to have removed himself from her.

young

There was an old lady of Cork who took a young priest for a walk.

The only benefit of the endeavor came when old Benjamin Franklin became a friend of the young priest .

A young temple priest , not quite thirty, began to vomit blood.

A young priest is with us for some of the time.

He would be patient with this young priest .

A registered nurse once. recorded her flyte with the sanatorium's young priest .

The young priest ran into the rectory.

■ NOUN

jesuit

So they call out the local Jesuit priest , he takes a good sniff and says it's haunted.

Her brother Greg was a Jesuit priest , and she was drawn to the order because of its work with the poor.

A Jesuit priest , Father Jon Cortina, started the search for missing children when the war ended in 1992.

His geographically-based nomenclature was however superseded by that devised only a few years later by Giovanni Riccioli, a Jesuit priest .

Thus Buddhism is enjoying a great flowering in the West at present; Jesuit priests are studying meditation from Zen practitioners.

parish

I always warn my men that there's something of the scapegoat involved in the role of parish priest .

And so she went to her parish priest and asked him what to do to save her marriage.

He retired at Christmas, 1990, as parish priest of St Ignatius, Ossett, suffering from a chronic chest complaint.

Arsenio Carrillo served as a parish priest at San Agust n from 1956 to 1963, and returned in 1969.

He immersed himself in parish work and made himself indispensable to the overworked parish priest .

Later she told her parish priest .

He's a sort of diocesan works manager responsible to the bishop for the smooth running of the parish priests .

That morning, she had been to Sealdah to meet the parish priest .

woman

The Oxford Diocese overwhelmingly endorsed women priests in a poll last year.

So why is he so opposed to women priests ?

It will still progress without women priests and homosexuals.

Although the first generation of women priests had to fight to assert their identity, those problems have been ironed out.

When he soundly supported the principle of women priests they made him modify his statement.

A decision on the ordination of women priests will be taken by the General Synod in November.

■ VERB

become

It is not the first time that a pastor has become a priest .

For instance, no blacks could become Mormon priests , right?

The other two became priests - and yet still more lost to Protestantism.

Before 1978, black members of the church were not able to become priests .

They think that the Church would then become less dominated by priests .

So the Mormons suddenly had a vision-blacks could now become priests .

Though she never lived to see the day, six of her sons became priests and four of her daughters nuns.

He planned to become a priest , but left the order shortly before being ordained.

ordain

From her vantage point in Galway Cathedral she watched him ordain a priest into the celibate life.

He returned to Forli as a newly ordained priest and founded there a new monastery for his order.

After he served for a year as a deacon he was ordained as a priest .

On the one hand, Mormonism was partially democratized in that virtually every adult male could be ordained a priest .

Wilfred of York, and Bishop Haedda, who ordained him a priest .

For a time he served as canon and treasurer of Salisbury Cathedral, having been ordained a priest several years before.

PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

the incumbent president/priest/government etc

At the same time, as the incumbent President, he is also answerable for the state of the nation.

Efficiency is the principle that voters ought to be able to assess the responsibility of and exercise control over the incumbent government.

Labour would then benefit from the extra coverage given to the incumbent government.

Like Clinton 12 years later, he possessed in volume what the incumbent president, Jimmy Carter, lacked.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

Do we run out and call the priest or rabbi?

Father Matthew Connor was not a modern priest .

For instance, no blacks could become Mormon priests, right?

For the first time in my life I could not confess all my sins to the priest .

Garvey says his machine tends to be a little more heavy-handed with the Hail Marys than your average priest .

It was the priest who examined the wound after three days to see whether it had healed.

Marquez has been a priest for over twenty years.

The women liked to go there, but the priests were the first to die.

Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary.      Дополнительный английский словарь Longman DOCE5.