sacerdotal

Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

In December 1984, Rev. Cardenal was expelled from the Jesuit order and was suspended from conducting sacerdotal duties until further notice.

From Washington Post • Feb. 22, 2016

That sacerdotal view has altered in recent years.

From Washington Post

Surrealism's whole mode of attack�the manifestoes, shock treatment and sacerdotal gesticulation�was based on an idea of the artist as public figure, the Anti-Priest, to which Cornell did not subscribe.

From Time Magazine Archive

In financial circles, he has an almost sacerdotal distinction.

From Time Magazine Archive

But this does not constitute a really sacerdotal dominion, and the term theocracy is as little applicable to such an order of things, as to the Greek Patriarchate in the Turkish empire.

From The Philosophy of History, Vol. 1 of 2 by Schlegel, Friedrich