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Definition of Priesthoods
1. priesthood [n] - See also: priesthood
Lexicographical Neighbors of Priesthoods
Literary usage of Priesthoods
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities by William Smith (1891)
"The union of the existing priesthoods in the person of the emperor ; 2. The new
priesthoods connected in Italy and the provinces with the worship of the ..."
2. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1908)
"... known otherwise as the heretic king Khu-en-aten, that he might there develop
untrammeled by the hostile priesthoods his favorite cult of the disk of the ..."
3. Utah and the Mormons: The History, Government, Doctrines, Customs, and by Benjamin G. Ferris (1854)
"priesthoods.—The President is Prophet and Seer: his Power.—Tithing.—Individual
cases. ... There are two priesthoods in the Church—the Melchisedek and ..."
4. System of Positive Polity by Auguste Comte (1877)
"... and theocratic priesthoods. To know m order to improve, the motto of our
primeval ancestors, will equally, with our remotest posterity, ..."
5. The Ancient World from the Earliest Times to 800 A.D. by Willis Mason West (1904)
"priesthoods ; Pontiffs and Augurs. — Under these conditions there grew up in
Rome (as in other Italian towns) two important "colleges" of city priests ..."
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