They [the Puritans] established sacerdotal ordination on the foundation of the Bible and common sense. From LearnThat.org. [John Adams (1735-1826), 2nd U.S. president. From Dissertation on the Canon and the Feudal Law, 1765.]
Priestly (or sacerdotal) vestments. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
sacerdotal emphasis on the authority of priests. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
And that city was also sacerdotal, that is to say, sanctuary of the tribe of. From Wordnik.com. [The Travels of Sir John Mandeville] Reference
He acts not in virtue of any magical powers inherent in himself, either as an individual or as a member of any so-called sacerdotal caste. From Wordnik.com. [Religious Reality] Reference
To associate its spiritual or "sacerdotal" function with its national one "is to be considered as ... a mis-growth of ignorance and oppression.". From Wordnik.com. [Introduction: Irony and Clerisy] Reference
The poems always are spoken of as 'sacerdotal', ritualistic, without the slightest attempt to see whether this be true of all or of some alone. From Wordnik.com. [The Religions of India Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume 1, Edited by Morris Jastrow] Reference
In his way of turning the leaves there is something sacerdotal. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
In the sacristy are preserved several of his sacerdotal vestments. From Wordnik.com. [The South of France—East Half] Reference
The sacerdotal origin of astrology was well known to the ancients; see. From Wordnik.com. [The Oriental Religions in Roman Paganism] Reference
The Oriental civilizations on the contrary were sacerdotal in character. From Wordnik.com. [The Oriental Religions in Roman Paganism] Reference
Nazara, was a sacerdotal or sacrificial system in the sense already explained. From Wordnik.com. [Morality as a Religion An exposition of some first principles] Reference
The parallelism between the divine and the sacerdotal influence is established in Ps. - Apul. From Wordnik.com. [The Oriental Religions in Roman Paganism] Reference
State, and the mutual good understanding of the sovereign secular power and the sacerdotal authority be broken up. From Wordnik.com. [Donahoe's Magazine, Volume 15, No. 1, January 1886] Reference
Dasmariñas compelled him to keep within the sphere of his sacerdotal functions, and tolerated no rival in State concerns. From Wordnik.com. [The Philippine Islands] Reference
And the thaumaturgus, who was supposed to be the heir of the archaic priests, assumed a wholly sacerdotal appearance at Rome. From Wordnik.com. [The Oriental Religions in Roman Paganism] Reference
At the close of the sacerdotal is sacreligious performance, we mount the shaking ladder to a thatched shed on the rim of the crater. From Wordnik.com. [Through the Malay Archipelago] Reference
The sacerdotal hierarchy and the rights granted to the priesthood and believers were minutely defined in a series of senate decrees. From Wordnik.com. [The Oriental Religions in Roman Paganism] Reference
The doctrine of sacrificial atonement seems almost universally prevalent, and forms the basis of the various sacerdotal institutions. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 347, September, 1844] Reference
It is difficult to believe that the sacerdotal corps of the goddess of Hierapolis should have consisted only of charlatans and thieves. From Wordnik.com. [The Oriental Religions in Roman Paganism] Reference
Dr. Eitel says that "Gautama was the sacerdotal name of the Sakya family, which counted the ancient rishi Gautama among its ancestors.". From Wordnik.com. [A Record of Buddhistic kingdoms: being an account by the Chinese monk Fa-hsien of travels in India and Ceylon (A.D. 399-414) in search of the Buddhist books of discipline] Reference
We have, for example, a high ecclesiastic in one of the sacerdotal communions, and by his side there is some order of Nonconformist minister. From Wordnik.com. [Men in the Making] Reference
Warriors are found with their armor, women with ornaments for the toilet, priests with their sacerdotal ornaments, as in the tomb at Cervetri. From Wordnik.com. [Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life] Reference
They have entirely lost their sacerdotal character, but glory in their occupation, and affect to despise the Bed or Veda Brahmans, who live upon alms. From Wordnik.com. [The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II] Reference
Zisca now began again to pay attention to the reformation; he forbid all the prayers for the dead, images, sacerdotal vestments, fasts, and festivals. From Wordnik.com. [Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs] Reference
He who should be the parishioner was treated despotically as the subject whose life, liberty, property, and civil rights were in his sacerdotal lord's power. From Wordnik.com. [The Philippine Islands] Reference
The sacerdotal service began at noon, and Queen Elizabeth rode in a golden car on a dark purple throne to witness the last rites in honor of her court favorite. From Wordnik.com. [Shakspere, Personal Recollections] Reference
All these ministers are subject to the civil magistrate, who is looked upon as a sort of diocesan, and who may perform at any time all the sacerdotal functions. From Wordnik.com. [History of the Moors of Spain] Reference
But neither in Greece nor in Italy is there any trace of a coherent system of doctrines, of an occult and learned discipline, nor of any sacerdotal instruction. From Wordnik.com. [The Oriental Religions in Roman Paganism] Reference
The only invective that broke the calm of his peaceful speech was directed against the ruling sacerdotal influence; he was emphatically a "Prophet of the Most High". From Wordnik.com. [Morality as a Religion An exposition of some first principles] Reference
Mr. Gladstone, however, left the sacerdotal power no choice but to make the best terms they could with the Irish leader, who was only too glad to secure their co-operation. From Wordnik.com. [The Quarterly Review, Volume 162, No. 324, April, 1886] Reference
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