Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to priest
Participle: priested
Gerund: priesting
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | priest |
| you | priest |
| he;she;it | priests |
| we | priest |
| you | priest |
| they | priest |
Perfect
| I | have priested |
| you | have priested |
| he;she;it | has priested |
| we | have priested |
| you | have priested |
| they | have priested |
Past
| I | priested |
| you | priested |
| he;she;it | priested |
| we | priested |
| you | priested |
| they | priested |
Pluperfect
| I | had priested |
| you | had priested |
| he;she;it | had priested |
| we | had priested |
| you | had priested |
| they | had priested |
Future
| I | will priest |
| you | will priest |
| he;she;it | will priest |
| we | will priest |
| you | will priest |
| they | will priest |
Future Perfect
| I | will have priested |
| you | will have priested |
| he;she;it | will have priested |
| we | will have priested |
| you | will have priested |
| they | will have priested |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | priest |
| you | priest |
| he;she;it | priest |
| we | priest |
| you | priest |
| they | priest |
Perfect
| I | have priested |
| you | have priested |
| he;she;it | have priested |
| we | have priested |
| you | have priested |
| they | have priested |
Imperfect
| I | priested |
| you | priested |
| he;she;it | priested |
| we | priested |
| you | priested |
| they | priested |
Pluperfect
| I | had priested |
| you | had priested |
| he;she;it | had priested |
| we | had priested |
| you | had priested |
| they | had priested |
Conditional
Present
| I | would priest |
| you | would priest |
| he;she;it | would priest |
| we | would priest |
| you | would priest |
| they | would priest |
Perfect
| I | would have priested |
| you | would have priested |
| he;she;it | would have priested |
| we | would have priested |
| you | would have priested |
| they | would have priested |
Imperative
| you | priest |
| we | Let's priest |
| you | priest |
Verbs conjugated like 'priest'
abandon,
abduct,
abear,
aberr,
abject,
abord,
abort,
abound,
abraid,
abray,
abrook,
abscind,
abscond,
absist,
absorb,
abstain,
abstract,
accend,
accent,
accept, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'priest'
prest,
arrest,
crest,
frist,
orient,
preset,
press,
pretest,
prie,
prieve,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. From Middle English prest, preest, from Old English prēost (“priest”), from Late Latin presbyter, from Ancient Greek πρεσβύτερος (presbúteros), from πρέσβυς (présbus, “elder, older”). Reinforced in Middle English by Old French prestre, also from Latin presbyter. Doublet of presbyter and prester.
2. * The Tyndale Bible uses native English elder instead.
Sample Sentences
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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. [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]
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He was deaconed on the 23rd May, and priested on the 29th September, 1624, by John, Bishop of Sodar and Man. [1869, George Bennett, The History of Bandon, Francis Guy, page 518]
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Chapman was a lay missionary and was not deaconed until 1844 and priested in 1852. [1992, Allan Davidson, Donald D. Hook, “New Zealand's Prayer Book”, in Anglican and Episcopal History, 61.3, pages 247-251:]
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Thus, Samuel Seabury... was deaconed by the Bishop of Lincoln and priested by the Bishop of Carlisle. [2013, Gregory K. Cameron, “Locating the Anglican Communion in the History of Anglicanism”, in The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to the Anglican Communion, page 3:]