sacerdotal

From Middle English sacerdotale, from Old French sacerdotal, from Latin sacerdōtālis (“priestly”).

• IPA^(key): /ˌsæs.ə(ɹ)ˈdəʊ.təl/, sometimes /ˌsæ.kə(ɹ)ˈdəʊ.təl/^[1][2]
• Rhymes: -əʊtəl

sacerdotal (comparative more sacerdotal, superlative most sacerdotal)

1. (religion) Of or relating to priests or a high religious order; priestly.
   • 1711, Roger Laurence, Sacerdotal Powers:

     ...and so neither is the Silence of the Reformed, and of the Church of England in relation to the Rebaptization of Persons Baptiz'd by Midwives and Laymen, any Argument against their receiving Sacerdotal Baptism; so long as that is the only Baptism which Christ Instituted, and which by his Law every one is bound to receive, who has not yet received it.

   • 1864, Fitz-Hugh Ludlow, The Atlantic:

     ...some of the figures are costumed in the style of religious art, with flowing sacerdotal garments.

   • 1885–1886, Henry James, The Bostonians , London; New York, N.Y.: Macmillan and Co., published 16 February 1886, →OCLC:

     Verena's initial appearance in Boston, as he called her performance at Miss Birdseye's, had been a great success; and this reflection added, as I say, to his habitually sacerdotal expression.

• hieratic (Grecian)
• priestly

• sacerdotalism
• sacerdotally

• crateloads

Borrowed from Latin sacerdotālis.

• IPA^(key): /sa.sɛʁ.dɔ.tal/

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sacerdotal (feminine sacerdotale, masculine plural sacerdotaux, feminine plural sacerdotales)

1. priestly

• “sacerdotal”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.

From Latin sacerdōtālis.

sacerdotal m or f (plural sacerdotais)

1. priestly

• sacerdote

• “sacerdotal”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2024

Borrowed from Latin sacerdōtālis, from sacerdōs (“priest”).

• IPA^(key): /sat͡seɾdoˈtal/

sacerdotal (plural sacerdotales)

1. priestly
   • c. 1200, Almerich, Fazienda de Ultramar, f. 46r:

     e depues ueno ſaul. ⁊ enop. e p̃ſo eſtos ſacerdotes e mato dent .Lxxx. ⁊ .v. reueſtidos de ſac̃dotal ueſtimienta

     And then came Saul to Nob. And he took these priests and killed therein eighty-five men dressed in the priestly garments.

• sacerdocio
• sacerdote

• Spanish: sacerdotal

Borrowed from Latin sacerdōtālis.

• Hyphenation: sa‧cer‧do‧tal

sacerdotal m or f (plural sacerdotais)

1. (religion) sacerdotal (relating to priests or a high religious order)

• sacerdote

Borrowed from French sacerdotal, from Latin sacerdotalis. By surface analysis, sacerdot +‎ -al.

sacerdotal m or n (feminine singular sacerdotală, masculine plural sacerdotali, feminine and neuter plural sacerdotale)

1. sacerdotal

Inherited from Old Spanish sacerdotal, from Latin sacerdōtālis (“priestly”), from sacerdōs (“priest”).

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /saθeɾdoˈtal/
• IPA^(key): (Latin America, Philippines) /saseɾdoˈtal/
• Rhymes: -al
• Syllabification: sa‧cer‧do‧tal

sacerdotal m or f (masculine and feminine plural sacerdotales)

1. sacerdotal

• “sacerdotal”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10