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Priesthood

The office or character of a priest; the priestly function.

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Clergy 76% connected

The body of men set apart, by due ordination, to the service of God, in the Christian church, in distinction from the laity; in England, usually rest…

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Ministry 76% connected

The act of ministering; ministration; service.

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Monkhood 76% connected

The character or condition of a monk.

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Profession 76% connected

The act of professing or claiming; open declaration; public avowal or acknowledgment; as, professions of friendship; a profession of faith.

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Priest 74% connected

A presbyter elder; a minister

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Priest 74% connected

A presbyter elder; a minister

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Ablution noun · 78% connection

A small quantity of wine and water, which is used to wash the priest's thumb and index finger after the communion, and which then, as…

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Absolution noun · 78% connection

The exercise of priestly jurisdiction in the sacrament of penance, by which Catholics believe the sins of the truly penitent are forgi…

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Character noun · 78% connection

Quality, position, rank, or capacity; quality or conduct with respect to a certain office or duty; as, in the miserable character of a…

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Confessional noun · 78% connection

The recess, seat, or inclosed place, where a priest sits to hear confessions; often a small structure furnished with a seat for the pr…

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Covariant noun · 78% connection

A function involving the coefficients and the variables of a quantic, and such that when the quantic is lineally transformed the same…

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Cure noun · 78% connection

Spiritual charge; care of soul; the office of a parish priest or of a curate; hence, that which is committed to the charge of a parish…

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Derivative noun · 78% connection

A derived function; a function obtained from a given function by a certain algebraic process.

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Ephod noun · 78% connection

A part of the sacerdotal habit among Jews, being a covering for the back and breast, held together on the shoulders by two clasps or b…

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Function noun · 78% connection

The appropriate action of any special organ or part of an animal or vegetable organism; as, the function of the heart or the limbs; th…

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High-priesthood noun · 78% connection

The office, dignity, or position of a high priest.

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Image noun · 78% connection

(mathematics) the set of values of the dependent variable for which a function is defined; "the image of f(x) = x^2 is the set of all…

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Integration noun · 78% connection

The operation of finding the primitive function which has a given function for its differential coefficient. See Integral.

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Inverse function noun · 78% connection

a function obtained by expressing the dependent variable of one function as the independent variable of another; f and g are inverse f…

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Levitical adjective · 78% connection

Priestly.

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Linear function noun · 78% connection

a mathematical function whose graph (in Cartesian coordinates with uniform scales) is a line in the plane.; "The height (in centimeter…

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Lore verb · 78% connection

That which is or may be learned or known; the knowledge gained from tradition, books, or experience; often, the whole body of knowledg…

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Map noun · 78% connection

(mathematics) a mathematical relation such that each element of a given set (the domain of the function) is associated with an element…

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Mapping noun · 78% connection

(mathematics) a mathematical relation such that each element of a given set (the domain of the function) is associated with an element…

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