priest - use in sentences

Converse of object

  • ordain: Christopher Angel was ordained priest by Bishop Roche in St Joseph's Catholic Church, Bradford on Saturday 17 June.
  • defrock: With three miles to go, leader Vanderlei de Lima of Brazil was bundled into the crowd by the defrocked priest.
  • appoint: Fr Oliver Heaney, who had been Assistant Priest from 1968 to 1975, was appointed parish priest of Epsom from 1981 to 1990.
  • bless: In verses 1-2 the people bless the priests and Levites, and in the verse 3 the latter reply.

Adjective modifier

  • Catholic: He decided to approach the Catholic priest asking for Baptism.
  • chief: And has he not come here for the purpose of bring them bound before the chief priests?
  • catholic: There was no in long island sound a catholic priest the option for.
  • secular: During their rule the college had become the main source of secular priests on the Scottish Mission.
  • Egyptian: I will use the story of Ibrahim Khalil the former Egyptian Coptic priest.

Noun used with modifier

  • Jesuit: The French Jesuit priest Pierre Teilhard de Chardin first postulated the evolution of consciousness in the nineteen thirties.
  • chantry: The chantry priest funded by his will was to pray on Wednesdays and Fridays for the souls of his parents and himself.
  • parish: On a recent visit, I was pleased to bump into the parish priest, Father John Burrows.
  • celibate: Catholicism generally spreads from parent to child but celibate priests play a role too.
  • Buddhist: The sky's darkening - it's getting late in the day. ] 2 [ Two Buddhist priests are walking through some tall grass.
  • voodoo: Voodoo priests in London have been linked with ritual murders.

Possessives

  • doorway: The S doorway is in situ, the priest's doorway has been reassembled in the S porch.

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