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English
Etymology
From un- + priest.
Verb
unpriest (third-person singular simple present unpriests, present participle unpriesting, simple past and past participle unpriested)
- (transitive) To deprive of priesthood
- Synonym: unfrock
- 1644 July, John Milton, The Judgment of Martin Bucer touching Divorce, Book II, Chapter XXIV, tr. of Martin Bucer, De Regno Christi.
The same thought Leo, bishop of Rome, Ep. 85, to the African bishops of Mauritania Caesariensis, wherein complaining of a certain priest, who divorcing his wife, or being divorced by her, as other copies have it, had married another, neither dissolves the matrimony, nor excommunicates him, only unpriests him.
Noun
unpriest (plural unpriests)
- (rare) One who is not a priest.
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