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Aug. 14, 2016
sacerdotal\sas-er-DOHT-l\adjective
1. of priests; priestly.
Quotes... she saved enough to buy tall thick sacerdotal candles from an
ecclesiastical shop in London.
-- Virginia Woolf, "Miss Pryme," The Complete Shorter Fiction of
Virginia Woolf, 1985
Origin of sacerdotalSacerdotal stems from the Latin sacerdÅs meaning
"priest." It entered English in the mid-1300s.More From
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