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What does priesthood mean?

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Noun
  1. The role or office of a priest
  2. Priests as a group; the clergy
  3. Authority to act in the name of God.
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Caesar's time, authoritatively printed in the calendar, has triumphed over the archaic oral proclamation of the kalends by the priesthood.
She, or members of her team, visited thirty-eight of the forty-two U.S. theologates that enroll candidates for the priesthood.
I do think that sacral aura of science, and its priesthood of scientists, has faded as the ultimate authority in our lives.
In Africa it is sacred to the priesthood or acolytes, in America it has become generalized.
This was done by the priests, and the church is a part of the antitypical priesthood.
If a cohen raises a boy as his son, the boy will not have the privileges nor the constraints of the priesthood.

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