different between priest vs synodal

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

synod +? -al

Noun

synodal (plural synodals)

1. A tribute in money formerly paid to the bishop or archdeacon, at the time of his Easter visitation, by every parish priest, now made to the ecclesiastical commissioners; a procuration.
   • 1887, Thomas Gibson, Legends and Historical Notes on Places of North Westmoreland

     synodals, paid to the Bishop of Carlisle every year

2. A constitution made in a provincial or diocesan synod.

Adjective

synodal (not comparable)

1. synodic; relating to a synod

French

Etymology

From Latin synodalis, from Ancient Greek (synodos) 'gathering'; cognate with Dutch synodaal, German synodal etc.

Adjective

synodal (feminine singular synodale, masculine plural synodaux, feminine plural synodales)

1. synodic, pertaining to a synod, notably in ecclesiastic context

Related terms

• synode m
• synodique

Further reading

• “synodal” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

German

Etymology

From Late Latin synod?lis, from synodus, from Ancient Greek ??????? (súnodos, “assembly, meeting”). Cognate with English synodal, Dutch synodaal, French synodal.

Pronunciation

Adjective

synodal

1. synodic, relating to a synod, notably in ecclesiastic context

Related terms

• Synode

Further reading

• “synodal” in Duden online