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unˈpriest, v.
[un-2 6 b, 4. Cf. Du. ontpriesteren.]
1. trans. To deprive (a person) of the character or office of priest.
1550Bale Eng. Votaries ii. 63 b, If he were a secular prest, or one vnprested by them, he shuld clerely lose his benefyce. 1581J. Bell Haddon's Answ. Osor. 285 One Stephen was made Pope, who..doth first vnpriest, and after⁓wardes newpriest agayne all such as Const. before him had priested. 1641R. Brooke Eng. Episc. 74, I finde..some others unpriested by Councells because ordained by Presbyters alone. 1691S. Grascome Reply Vind. Disc. 11 To take away our Orders, and Unpriest and Unbishop us. 1713Calamy Life Baxter (ed. 2) xvii. 466 No Secular Power could Unbishop and Unpriest, or disable them. A Clergy⁓man's Authority (said they) is from God. 1839J. Rogers Antipopopr. xvii. §2. 340 Thousands of men may have..brought disorder and nullity into the kirk, unpriesting the priesthood. 1868Browning Ring & Bk. vi. 1870 Unpriest me,..Remove me from the midst, no longer priest.
2. To deprive, or make free, of priests.
1844Mozley Ess. (1878) II. 33 This ideal of a Church of course utterly unpriested it, and a priest, accordingly, Arnold could not tolerate. |
