different between priest vs celebrant

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

French célébrant

Pronunciation

Noun

celebrant (plural celebrants)

1. A person who officiates at a religious ceremony, especially a marriage or the Eucharist.
   • 1851, John Bate Cardale, Catholic apostolic church services, Readings upon the Liturgy and Other Divine Offices of the Church, page 140,

     The most appropriate mode of ordering the holy vessels at this part of the service, previously to preparing them for the communion, is for the celebrant to place both the patten and the chalice in the middle of the altar, in a line with himself, the chalice behind and the patten in front; for they are presented before God as one Eucharist.
2. (Australia, New Zealand) A person who conducts formal ceremonies in the community, particularly weddings, baby namings, renewals of wedding vows and funerals.
   • 2006, Timoshenko Aslanides, Occasions for Words: Poems for Birth, Marriage, Death and Much Between, page v,

     When we first began as celebrants back in 1973, we had no poetry in our heads at all.

3. A person who is celebrating something.
   • 1977 February 10, Gerri Major, Gerri Major's Society World: Inaugural Balls Have Largest Black Participation Ever, JET, page 39,

     Once inside, about all that the celebrants could do was nod their heads to the music and pat their feet.

   • 1997, Thomas Andrew Bailey, David M. Kennedy, The American Spirit: To 1877, page 12,

     The procession began, and the celebrants filed into the temple patio to dance the Dance of the Serpent.

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Translations

Catalan

Verb

celebrant

1. present participle of celebrar

Latin

Verb

celebrant

1. third-person plural present active indicative of celebr?