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I stopped the foremost of the sacerdotal train, and spoke with him in his own language.

And I myself, left alone in the calmness of sacerdotal office, forgot even that.

And there was rich religious literature in the form of sacerdotal chants.

Islam, like Judaism, has no clergy in the sacerdotal sense.

He did not believe in priests in their sacerdotal character.

Power over people: the sacerdotal few over the compliant many.

Bishops, maybe, they were wearing fancy robes with that sacerdotal look.

Many priests in the country consider this to be the day when they renew their sacerdotal vows.

There was an intellectual exercise of a sacerdotal magnitude.

In this sense, the believer himself or herself performs the sacerdotal role .

He was not above using a bit of sacerdotal sleight-of-hand to mask his real intent.

Before him alone did the priest cast off the sacerdotal garb and stand naked.

After the catechism, he became a fully different person, discovering his sacerdotal vocation.

She was aided in her sacerdotal duties by a girl from every household in the community.

Both wear contemporary sacerdotal vestments with a cape full of ribbons.

Suspension did not take away a priest's sacerdotal authority-only his right to exercise it.

Nakedness was ordained by sacerdotal law for the role he was to play.

I saw him imperious as never before, sacerdotal, hieratic.

His sacerdotal ordination was on April 25, 1979.

Her passion for food is sacerdotal, almost creedal.

In the past, this sometimes led a musician, as sacerdotal custodian of the A, to become a pitch tyrant.

Sylvester was stripped of his sacerdotal rank and exiled to a monastery.

Like the rosary and novenas, these were lay rather than sacerdotal forms of worship.

The church sanctioned a sacerdotal kingship, confirming the royal line's legitimacy.

He could not tell her that membership of the ruling clan took precedence over all else, even the sacerdotal vows.