Usually means: Relating to duties of clergy.
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  1. priestly: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. priestly: Merriam-Webster
  3. priestly: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. priestly: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. priestly: Collins English Dictionary
  6. priestly: Vocabulary.com
  7. Priestly, priestly: Wordnik
  8. priestly: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. priestly: Wiktionary
  10. priestly: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. priestly: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. priestly: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Priestly, priestly: Dictionary.com
  14. Priestly: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Priestly: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. priestly: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. priestly: Rhymezone
  18. Priestly: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. priestly: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. priestly: FreeDictionary.org
  21. priestly: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. priestly: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. priestly: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Priestly)

▸ adjective:  Of or relating to priests.
▸ adjective:  Having the appearance of or resembling a priest.
▸ noun:  A habitational surname from Old English.
▸ adjective:  (history) Pertaining to the Priestly source (ā€œPā€), one of the sources of the Torah or Pentateuch according to the documentary hypothesis.

Similar:
sacerdotal, priestlike, hieratic, hieratical, priestal, highpriestly, clerical, archpriestly, cleric, high-priestly, more...

Opposite:
lay, secular, non-clerical

Types:
abbot, cardinal, bishop, pope, patriarch, rabbi, imam, more...

Phrases:
high priestly, Priestly Blessing, Miranda Priestly, Priestly Fraternity of Saint Peter, Priestly breastplate, more...

Adjectives:
high, non, pre, levi, english, celebrated, post, late, old, similar, traditional

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Similar:
sacerdotal, priestlike, hieratic, hieratical, priestal, highpriestly, clerical, archpriestly, cleric, high-priestly, more...

Opposite:
lay, secular, non-clerical

Types:
abbot, cardinal, bishop, pope, patriarch, rabbi, imam, more...

Phrases:
high priestly, Priestly Blessing, Miranda Priestly, Priestly Fraternity of Saint Peter, Priestly breastplate, Priestly source, Priestly caste, Twenty-four priestly gifts, priestly vestments, priestly garb, more...

Adjectives:
high, non, pre, levi, english, celebrated, post, late, old, similar, traditional

Colors:
    black,     white,     purple,     gold,     silver, more...



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