different between priest vs canonical

English

Etymology

From Middle English prest, preest, from Old English pr?ost (“priest”), from Late Latin presbyter, from Ancient Greek ??????????? (presbúteros), from ??????? (présbus, “elder, older”). Reinforced in Middle English by Old French prestre, also from Latin presbyter.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?p?i?st/, [?p??i?st]
• Rhymes: -i?st

Noun

priest (plural priests, feminine priestess)

1. a religious clergyman (clergywoman, clergyperson) who is trained to perform services or sacrifices at a church or temple

3. a blunt tool, used for quickly stunning and killing fish
4. (Mormonism) the highest office in the Aaronic priesthood

Coordinate terms

• imam, guru, kohen (cohen), rabbi, bhikkhu, godi

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

priest (third-person singular simple present priests, present participle priesting, simple past and past participle priested)

1. (transitive) To ordain as a priest.
   • 1610, Alexander Cooke, Pope Joane, in William Oldys, editor, The Harleian Miscellany: or, A Collection of Scarce, Curious, and Entertaining Pamphlets and Tracts, as well in Manuscript as in Print, Found in the Late Earl of Oxford's Library: Interspersed with Historical, Political, and Critical Notes: With a Table of the Contents, and an Alphabetical Index, volume IV, London: Printed for T[homas] Osborne, in Gray's-Inn, 1744, OCLC 5325177; republished as John Maltham, editor, The Harleian Miscellany; or, A Collection of Scarce, Curious, and Entertaining Pamphlets and Tracts, as well in Manuscript as in Print, Found in the Late Earl of Oxford's Library, Interspersed with Historical, Political, and Critical Notes, volume IV, London: Printed for R. Dutton, 1808–1811, OCLC 30776079, page 95:

     If there bee any lasie fellow, any that cannot away with worke, any that would wallow in pleasures, hee is hastie to be priested. And when hee is made one, and has gotten a benefice, he consorts with his neighbour priests, who are altogether given to pleasures; and then both hee, and they, live, not like Christians, but like epicures; drinking, eating, feasting, and revelling, till the cow come home, as the saying is.

See also

References

• “Lesson 7: Duties of the Priest”, in Duties and Blessings of the Priesthood, Part A?^[1], The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 2000, page 48
• Smart, Alastair Fish Welfare at Harvest: Killing Me Softly
• Comparison of Common Slaughter Methods for Farmed Finfish Seafood innovations.

Anagrams

• Pitres, Presti, Sprite, esprit, pierst, re-tips, respit, retips, ripest, sitrep, sprite, stripe, tripes

German

Verb

priest

1. second-person singular/plural preterite of preisen

Middle English

Noun

priest

1. Alternative form of prest (“priest”)

English

Etymology

canon +? -ical or canonic +? -al.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /k?.?n?n.?.kl?/

Adjective

canonical (comparative more canonical, superlative most canonical)

1. Present in a canon, religious or otherwise.

   The Gospel of Luke is a canonical New Testament book.
2. According to recognised or orthodox rules.

   The men played golf in the most canonical way, with no local rules.

3. Stated or used in the most basic and straightforwardly applicable manner.

   the reduction of a linear substitution to its canonical form

4. Prototypical.
5. (religion) In conformity with canon law.
6. (music) In the form of a canon.
7. (religion) Of or pertaining to an ecclesiastical chapter
8. (mathematics, computing) In canonical form.
9. (mathematics) Distinguished among entities of its kind, so that it can be picked out in a way that does not depend on any arbitrary choices.

Synonyms

• (mathematics): natural

Antonyms

• (scripture): apocryphal

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

canonical (plural canonicals)

1. (plural only) The formal robes of a priest.
2. (Internet) A URL presented in canonical form.
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