sacerdotal

Borrowed from Old French sacerdotal, from Latin sacerdōtālis (“priestly”).

• IPA^(key): /ˌsæs.ə(ɹ)ˈdəʊ.təl/, sometimes /ˌsæ.kə(ɹ)ˈdəʊ.təl/[1][2]
• Rhymes: -əʊtəl

sacerdotal (comparative more sacerdotal, superlative most sacerdotal)

1. (religion) Of or relating to priests or a high religious order; priestly.
   • 1711, Roger Laurence, Sacerdotal Powers:

     ...and so neither is the Silence of the Reformed, and of the Church of England in relation to the Rebaptization of Persons Baptiz'd by Midwives and Laymen, any Argument against their receiving Sacerdotal Baptism; so long as that is the only Baptism which Christ Instituted, and which by his Law every one is bound to receive, who has not yet received it.

   • 1864, Fitz-Hugh Ludlow in The Atlantic:

     ...some of the figures are costumed in the style of religious art, with flowing sacerdotal garments.

   • 1886, Henry James, The Bostonians:

     Verena's initial appearance in Boston, as he called her performance at Miss Birdseye's, had been a great success; and this reflection added, as I say, to his habitually sacerdotal expression. He looked like the priest of a religion that was passing through the stage of miracles; he carried his responsibility in the general elongation of his person, of his gestures (his hands were now always in the air, as if he were being photographed in postures), of his words and sentences, as well as in his smile, as noiseless as a patent hinge, and in the folds of his eternal waterproof.

• hieratic (Grecian)
• priestly

• sacerdotalism
• sacerdotally

• crateloads

Borrowed from Latin sacerdotalis.

sacerdotal (feminine singular sacerdotale, masculine plural sacerdotaux, feminine plural sacerdotales)

1. priestly

• “sacerdotal” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Borrowed from Latin sacerdotalis.

sacerdotal m or f (plural sacerdotais, comparable)

1. (religion) sacerdotal (relating to priests or a high religious order)

• sacerdote

Borrowed from Latin sacerdōtālis (“priestly”), from sacerdōs (“priest”)

sacerdotal (plural sacerdotales)

1. sacerdotal

• sacerdote