priesthood

4 definitions found

priesthood - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Priesthood \Priest"hood\, n.
     1. The office or character of a priest; the priestly
        function. --Bk. of Com. Prayer.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     2. Priests, taken collectively; the order of men set apart
        for sacred offices; the order of priests.
        [1913 Webster]

priesthood - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  priesthood
      n 1: the body of ordained religious practitioners

priesthood - Jargon File (4.4.4, 14 Aug 2003) :

  priesthood
   n.
  
     [TMRC; obs.] The select group of system managers responsible for the
     operation and maintenance of a batch computer system. On these
     computers, a user never had direct access to a computer, but had to
     submit his/her data and programs to a priest for execution. Results
     were returned days or even weeks later.
  

priesthood - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  29 Moby Thesaurus words for "priesthood":
     Sacred College, apostleship, call, care of souls, clergy,
     clerical order, clericalism, clericals, episcopalianism,
     holy orders, ministry, pastorage, pastoral care, pastorate,
     prelacy, presbytery, priestery, priestism, priestship, rabbinate,
     sacerdotalism, sacred calling, the church, the cloth, the desk,
     the ministry, the pulpit, ultramontanism, vocation