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priestess
English
Alternative forms
- priestress (now chiefly US, nonstandard)
Etymology
From priest +? -ess. Compare Middle English preesteresse (“priestess”).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /pri??st?s/, /?pri??stes/
Noun
priestess (plural priestesses, masculine priest)
- A woman with religious duties and responsibilities in certain non-Christian religions.
- (religious slur, uncommon) A female Christian priest or minister, typically in a Protestant, Old Catholic, or independent Catholic denomination.
- (colloquial, obsolete) A priest’s wife.
Usage notes
Chiefly with regard to ancient or Pagan religions, or metaphorically. In Protestant denominations that admit women to the priesthood, such as Anglicanism, they are generally referred to as priests.
Synonyms
- (female non-Christian religious figure): kahuna, mamaloi, mambo
- (priest’s wife): presbytera, presbyteress
Hyponyms
- (female non-Christian religious figure): bacchante, high priestess
Derived terms
- high priestess
- priestesshood
- priestesslike
Translations
Verb
priestess (third-person singular simple present priestesses, present participle priestessing, simple past and past participle priestessed)
- (transitive) To oversee (a pagan ceremony, etc.) as priestess.
- Ye Ye Ife, a gifted feminist ritualist and priestess of Oshun from San Diego, trained in the Yoruba tradition, designed and priestessed the ritual with me.
- 2014, John C. Sulak, Carl Llewellyn Weschcke, Oberon Zell, The Wizard and the Witch: Seven Decades of Counterculture, Magick & Paganism
- I priestessed the ceremony. I played Hecate. One time I played Demeter and my daughter played Persephone.
See also
- abbatess, abbess, abbotess
- adoratrice
- domina
- Mother
- Mother Superior, mother superior
- prioress
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bacchante
English
Alternative forms
- Bacchante
Noun
bacchante (plural bacchantes)
- a priestess of Bacchus
- a female bacchanal
Synonyms
- maenad
Related terms
- bacchant
References
- bacchante in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ba.k??t/
- Homophone: bacchantes
Noun
bacchante f (plural bacchantes)
- bacchante
- (especially in plural) moustache
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /bak?k?an.te/, [bäk?k?än?t??]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /bak?kan.te/, [b?k?k?n?t??]
Participle
bacchante
- ablative masculine singular of bacch?ns
- ablative feminine singular of bacch?ns
- ablative neuter singular of bacch?ns
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