sacerdotal

From Middle English sacerdotale, 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, London; New York, N.Y.: Macmillan and Co., →OCLC:

     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.

• hieratic (Grecian)
• priestly

• sacerdotalism
• sacerdotally

• crateloads

Borrowed from Latin sacerdotalis.

• IPA^(key): /sa.sɛʁ.dɔ.tal/

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

1. priestly

• “sacerdotal”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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

• IPA^(key): /sat͡seɾdoˈtal/

sacerdotal (plural sacerdotales)

1. priestly
   • c. 1200, Almerich, Fazienda de Ultramar, f. 46r.

     e depues ueno ſaul. ¬ enop. e ṕſo eſtos ſacerdotes e mato dent. Lxxx. ¬. v. reueſtidos de ſaćdotal ueſtimienta

     And then came Saul to Nob. And he took these priests and killed therein eighty-five men dressed in the priestly garments.

• sacerdocio
• sacerdote

• Spanish: sacerdotal

Borrowed from Latin sacerdōtālis.

sacerdotal m or f (plural sacerdotais)

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

• sacerdote

From French sacerdotal, from Latin sacerdotalis.

sacerdotal m or n (feminine singular sacerdotală, masculine plural sacerdotali, feminine and neuter plural sacerdotale)

1. sacerdotal

From Old Spanish sacerdotal, from Latin sacerdōtālis (“priestly”), from sacerdōs (“priest”).

sacerdotal (plural sacerdotales)

1. sacerdotal

• “sacerdotal”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014