Priesting - Law Dictionary Search Results
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Of or pertaining to a priest or the priesthood sacerdotal befitting or becoming a priest as the priestly office a priestly farewell...
Priest
Priest, a person in Holy Orders either in the Church of England or Rome. A person under twenty-four years of age cannot be ordained a priest, 44 Geo. 3, c. 43. See CLERGY.Means a Parsi priest and includes Dastur and Mobed. [Parsi Marriage and Divorce Act, 1936 (3 of 1936), s. 2 (8)]...
Priest ridden
Controlled or oppressed by priests as a priest ridden people...
Confession to a priest
Confession to a priest. The English law does not recognise the duty of a priest (whether Roman Catholic or Anglican) to keep secrets revealed to him in his religious character, Normanshaw v. Normanshaw, (1893) 69 LT 468; Wheeler v. Le Marchant, (1881) 17 Ch D 681; but some judges have disapproved of extorting such secrets [see, e.g., per Best, C.J., in Broad v. Pitt, (1828) 3 C&P 518]. The practice of the law on this subject is very uncertain, and in Phillimore's Ecclesiastical Law as edited by Phillimore, L.J., when at the bar, the view is taken that it is not improbable that an English Court would decide the question in favour of the inviolability of confession and expand the law into harmony with that of other Christian states. See Best, Ev.; Taylor, Ev. The 113th Canon provides that 'if any man confess his secret and hidden sins to the minister for the unburdening of his conscience, and to receive spiritual consolation and ease of mind from him,' he 'do not reveal to any person who...
Hedge-priest
Hedge-priest, a vagabond priest in olden time....
High priest
A chief priest esp the head of the Jewish priesthood...
Priest
To ordain as priest...
Priesting
The office of a priest...
Parish Priest
Parish Priest, the parson; a minister who holds a parish as a benefice. If the predial tithes are unappropriated, he is called rector; if appropriated, vicar....
Confessional
The recess seat or inclosed place where a priest sits to hear confessions often a small structure furnished with a seat for the priest and with a window or aperture so that the penitent who is outside may whisper into the priests ear without being seen by him or heard by others...
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