high priest
See also: highpriest
English
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edithigh priest (plural high priests)
- (religion) A clergyman with a higher function than a normal priest.
- In the Bible, the male individual who was responsible for making the annual sacrifice on the Day of Atonement (Yom Kippur); always a descendant of Aaron, the older brother of Moses.
- (Christianity) Jesus Christ.
- (Mormonism) The second-lowest office in the Melchizedek priesthood.
- Jake was ordained a high priest when he was called to be a counselor in a bishopric.
- A person holding a position of power or influence; an authority in a field of study, doctrine, art or a movement.
- 2011, Robert Skidelsky, The Keynes-Hayek Rematch:
- The global economic collapse of 2007-2008 discredited “rational expectations” economics (though its high priests have yet to recognize this) and brought both Keynes and Hayek back into posthumous contention.
- 2020 June 23, John Bolton, The Room Where It Happened: A White House Memoir, New York, N.Y.: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 172:
- The high priest of US arms controllers
- (Wicca) A second or third degree male witch in Wicca.
Synonyms
edit- abbot (leader of a Christian or Buddhist monastery)
- archbishop
- godi (high priest in some Asatru or Germanic neopagan groups)
- head priest, chief priest (high priest of a local temple or shrine)
- mahant (high priest in some Hindu temples)
- volkhv (high priest in some Slavic neopagan temples)
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edithigh clergyman
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Bible: male person responsible for making the annual sacrifice
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Jesus Christ — see Jesus Christ
office in Mormonism
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powerful person, authority
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Wicca: third or fourth degree male witch
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References
edit"High Priest," Bible Dictionary, The Official Scriptures of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 2006.