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== Charles Buck Theological Dictionary <ref name="term_20267" /> == | == Charles Buck Theological Dictionary <ref name="term_20267" /> == | ||
<p> or | <p> or [[High]] [[Priest,]] a person who has the superintendence and direction of divine worship, as the offering of sacrifices and other religious solemnities. The Roman had a college of pontiffs, and over these a sovereign pontiff, instituted by Numa, whose function it was to prescribe the ceremonies each god was to be worshipped withal, compose the rituals, direct the vestals, and for a good while to perform the business of augury, till, on some superstitious occasion, he was prohibited intermeddling therewith. The Jews, too, had their pontiff; and among the Romanists the pope is styled the sovereign pontiff. </p> | ||
== Webster's Dictionary <ref name="term_159480" /> == | == Webster's Dictionary <ref name="term_159480" /> == | ||
<p> (1): (n.) A high priest. </p> <p> (2): (n.) One of the sacred college, in ancient Rome, which had the supreme jurisdiction over all matters of religion, at the head of which was the [[Pontifex]] Maximus. </p> <p> (3): (n.) The chief priest. </p> <p> (4): (n.) The pope. </p> | <p> '''(1):''' ''' (''' n.) [[A]] high priest. </p> <p> '''(2):''' ''' (''' n.) One of the sacred college, in ancient Rome, which had the supreme jurisdiction over all matters of religion, at the head of which was the [[Pontifex]] Maximus. </p> <p> '''(3):''' ''' (''' n.) The chief priest. </p> <p> '''(4):''' ''' (''' n.) The pope. </p> | ||
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Charles Buck Theological Dictionary [1]
or High Priest, a person who has the superintendence and direction of divine worship, as the offering of sacrifices and other religious solemnities. The Roman had a college of pontiffs, and over these a sovereign pontiff, instituted by Numa, whose function it was to prescribe the ceremonies each god was to be worshipped withal, compose the rituals, direct the vestals, and for a good while to perform the business of augury, till, on some superstitious occasion, he was prohibited intermeddling therewith. The Jews, too, had their pontiff; and among the Romanists the pope is styled the sovereign pontiff.
Webster's Dictionary [2]
(1): ( n.) A high priest.
(2): ( n.) One of the sacred college, in ancient Rome, which had the supreme jurisdiction over all matters of religion, at the head of which was the Pontifex Maximus.
(3): ( n.) The chief priest.
(4): ( n.) The pope.
