Definitions for archpriest

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archpriest arch·priest

Spelling: [ahrch-preest]

IPA: /ˈɑrtʃˈprist/

Archpriest is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.

You can make 1130 anagrams from letters in archpriest (acehiprrst).

Definitions for archpriest

noun

1. a priest holding first rank, as among the members of a cathedral chapter or among the clergy of a district outside the episcopal city.
2. Roman Catholic Church. a priest acting as superior of the Roman Catholic secular clergy in England, first appointed in 1598 and superseded by a vicar apostolic in 1623.

Origin of archpriest

1350-1400; Middle English archeprest (modeled on Late Latin archipresbyter Greek archipresbýteros). See arch-¹, priest

Examples for archpriest

He was finally deposed from office, and Birkhead took his place as archpriest.

The face of the archpriest was stern and set, as though chiseled out of alabaster.

To their summons, the archpriest made answer like a stout old persecutor, and bade his garrison fire upon the mob.

The archpriest Bajanof soon entered, and commenced the prayers which precede confession.

Then began a bitter war of pamphlets between the adherents and the adversaries of the archpriest.

On the surest testimony I know that the archpriest Pabo was consumed by fire from heaven.

The son of our archpriest, Father Cyril, himself is a lawyer.

Here the archpriest halted, and with the staff stirred the water.

But his fatherliness holds that Pabo the archpriest was burnt.

The archpriest, on reaching the church, mounted a block of stone, and dismissed the women.